From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: richardcochran@gmail.com, markos.chandras@imgtec.com,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, corbet@lwn.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: ptp: Fix build failure on MIPS cross builds
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:58:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <544690CB.4030307@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141021.123544.9516812519754063.davem@davemloft.net>
On 10/21/2014 09:35 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:07:25 +0200
>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:42:18AM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/ptp/Makefile b/Documentation/ptp/Makefile
>>> index 293d6c09a11f..397c1cd2eda7 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/ptp/Makefile
>>> +++ b/Documentation/ptp/Makefile
>>> @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
>>> # List of programs to build
>>> +ifndef CROSS_COMPILE
>>> hostprogs-y := testptp
>>> +else
>>> +# MIPS system calls are defined based on the -mabi that is passed
>>> +# to the toolchain which may or may not be a valid option
>>> +# for the host toolchain. So disable testptp if target architecture
>>> +# is MIPS but the host isn't.
>>> +ifndef CONFIG_MIPS
>>> +hostprogs-y := testptp
>>> +endif
>>> +endif
>>
>> It seems like a shame to simply give up and not compile this at all.
>> Is there no way to correctly cross compile this for MIPS?
>
> Yeah seriously, we should try to make this work instead of throwing our
> hands in the air.
>
We cross compile things successfully all the time for all the various
MIPS ABIs.
It is a simple matter of having the Makefile setup for cross compiling.
What I don't understand is why we are using hostprogs in this Makefile.
Isn't this a program that would run on the target, not the build host?
David Daney
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-21 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-20 8:42 [PATCH] Documentation: ptp: Fix build failure on MIPS cross builds Markos Chandras
2014-10-21 11:07 ` Richard Cochran
2014-10-21 12:11 ` Markos Chandras
2014-10-21 12:52 ` Richard Cochran
2014-10-21 13:03 ` Markos Chandras
2014-10-21 13:39 ` Richard Cochran
2014-10-21 16:35 ` David Miller
2014-10-21 16:58 ` David Daney [this message]
2014-10-21 18:27 ` Richard Cochran
2014-10-21 22:04 ` Peter Foley
2014-10-22 8:03 ` Richard Cochran
2014-10-22 14:09 ` Peter Foley
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