[Pkg-xen-devel] [PATCH 07/12] debian/rules: Set CC/LD for cross-building

[Ian Jackson]

Elliott Mitchell writes ("[PATCH 07/12] debian/rules: Set CC/LD for cross-building"):
> Set $(CC) and $(LD) when building.  People building ARM executables on
> ARM hosts aren't that common.
...
>  make_args_common := \
>  	XEN_COMPILE_ARCH=$(xen_arch_$(DEB_BUILD_ARCH)) \
> -	XEN_TARGET_ARCH=$(xen_arch_$(flavour))
> +	XEN_TARGET_ARCH=$(xen_arch_$(flavour)) \
> +	CC=$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)-gcc \
> +	LD=$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)-ld

Doesn't this want to be in make-args-xen ?

That is, I think autoconf, configure, et al, ought to do this right
for the tools.  It is the hypervisor which needs this other kind of
cross-compilation.

Ian.

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