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-rw-r--r--Makefile3
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig8
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 394aec712c7d..f9dc25cd9b2e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -183,11 +183,14 @@ SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
# CROSS_COMPILE can be set on the command line
# make CROSS_COMPILE=ia64-linux-
# Alternatively CROSS_COMPILE can be set in the environment.
+# A third alternative is to store a setting in .config so that plain
+# "make" in the configured kernel build directory always uses that.
# Default value for CROSS_COMPILE is not to prefix executables
# Note: Some architectures assign CROSS_COMPILE in their arch/*/Makefile
export KBUILD_BUILDHOST := $(SUBARCH)
ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH)
CROSS_COMPILE ?=
+CROSS_COMPILE ?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE:"%"=%)
# Architecture as present in compile.h
UTS_MACHINE := $(ARCH)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index d95ca7cd5d45..313506d8be6e 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
+config CROSS_COMPILE
+ string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
+ help
+ Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
+ default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't
+ need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
+ directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
+
config LOCALVERSION
string "Local version - append to kernel release"
help