[meta-freescale] Yocto dizzy version 1.7.1 cross compiling meta-toolchain BROKEN for weeks now!

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Matt, others,

On 03/31/2015 05:46 PM, Matt Madison wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:26 AM, ad me <adolphs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 31, 2015 5:19 AM, "Matt Madison" <matt at madison.systems> wrote:
> [...]
>>> You probably aren't invoking the compiler with the set of command-line
>>> options you need to get the desired output.  See the definition of the
>>> CC environment variable in the environment-setup script in the SDK, and
>>> make sure you use the same set of flags to invoke gcc.
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>
>> Please see the step by step in the document attached/linked.
>> The same one you highlighted on.
>>
>> I source this script just before invoking the compiler. Which means the CC
>> parameters are passed in as shown.
>>
>> Unless if you are suggesting that doing a "source" of the environment script
>> is not enough?
>>
>> If so, then I would not be able to invoke the correct compiler as the PATH
>> to it is setup by the same environment script I source.
>
>
> Sourcing the environment script is not enough; as I said, you have to
> run the compiler with the right set of options.
>
> So instead of:
>
> arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc hello_arm_world.c
>
> You could do:
>
> $CC hello_arm_world.c
>
> to use the CC environment variable directly to invoke the compiler
> with the options you need.
>
> -Matt

That was a good remark. I just checked a Makefile I've written for a 
customer project, here's how I use gcc for the cross-compiled recipe:

CC=$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc

This works for me both in Yocto builds and during stand-alone 
development with "whatever cross-toolchain is around".

Regards,
Nikolay