Subject: Re: [RFC] iproute: Support cross-compiling.

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:17:22 -0800

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:04:42 -0800
[email-masked] wrote:

> From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
> 
> This lets users use their own compiler instead of
> hard-coding to use gcc.
> 
> Also adds tests to disable some things that were not supported
> in my ARM cross-compile toolchain.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>

Can't you do this by setting up the compile environment better?
I would rather have the tools work with all features and handle
errors from kernel rather than neutering it.