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From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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To: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: CC=kgcc incomplete in 2.4.0-test11-ac1
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William Stearns wrote:
> 
> Good day, Alan,
>         A kernel build with your latest prepatch still seems to use gcc
> to compile some of the auxiliary tools:
> 
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep scripts/mkdep.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer gentbl.c -o gentbl -lm
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o conmakehash conmakehash.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o gen-devlist gen-devlist.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o tools/build tools/build.c -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/include
> 
>         Do any of the above tools need to use kgcc as well, or is gcc
> likely to work just fine?
>         Cheers,
>         - Bill

The userspace tools should be fine with the newer gcc.  It is set up
this way so that the userspace tools use the native compiler when
cross-compiling.  If you're really paranoid, set HOSTCC=kgcc as well.

--

				Brian Gerst
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