Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 16:07:20 +0100, Wookey wrote: > (Guillem - I was wondering if you had any response to my post on this > therad. I do. > I hope I haven't derailed your progress by asking awkward > questions without really providing solutions. I should really take > your suggestion and try to

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Wookey wrote: > This is a worthy goal, but I've had long conversations about this, > trying to think up some 'neutral' names which aren't confusing and > have failed. After much hand-wringing I concluded that one might as > well just use the GNU names as we use GNU conventions

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

+++ Thorsten Glaser [2015-06-16 13:39 +]: > There are two coëxisting sets of nomenclature for cross-compiling around. > Both are “correct” and have their merits, but they come from different > cultures and have different goals. > > Unfortunately, variables like HOSTCC, TARGET_CC, CC_FOR_BUILD

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

Guillem Jover debian.org> writes: > On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 01:34:08 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > On 05/10/2015 03:32 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > CC_FOR_BUILD = gcc Plus, what Wookey said. > > the above mentioned wiki pages still talk about HOSTCC and BUILDCC. Please > > clarify when to us

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

+++ Guillem Jover [2015-05-10 03:32 +0200]: > [ Please followup on debian-devel (M-F-T set). ] > > Hi! > > There are currently two goals people are pursuing that seemed to > initially conflict with each other: > > >

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

Hi! On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 01:34:08 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 05/10/2015 03:32 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > CC_FOR_BUILD = gcc > > the above mentioned wiki pages still talk about HOSTCC and BUILDCC. Please > clarify when to use these. I think HOSTCC and BUILDCC should never be used, becau

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

On 05/10/2015 03:32 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > CC_FOR_BUILD = gcc the above mentioned wiki pages still talk about HOSTCC and BUILDCC. Please clarify when to use these. Are the names now final? Also I don't see OBJC and OBJCXX in use, and GOC and GDC are missing. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

[ Please followup on debian-devel (M-F-T set). ] Hi! There are currently two goals people are pursuing that seemed to initially conflict with each other: But they can be made to co