Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] Makefile: introduce CROSS_COMPILE variable

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:38:06 -0700

Marat Radchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:37:42PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

>>> +CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)cc
>>
>> Nice.
>
> Actually, not. You still have to override CC because it is
> $(CROSS_COMPILE)*g*cc. Any thoughts how to handle this?

One possibility would be something like

	ifdef CROSS_COMPILE
	CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
	else
	CC = cc
	endif

Or as Felipe says, you can try to lobby your distro to install the
symlink.

Thanks,
Jonathan