[coreboot] What's the purpose of xcompile?

[Hamo]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de> wrote:
> Am 09.05.2011 05:00, schrieb Hamo:
>> There are a few gcc toolchain prefixes such as arm-elf, armel-elf,
>> arm-none-eabi, etc. It is a little difficult hard coding all the
>> prefixes in this script. And Such as U-boot and Kernel, both allow
>> their users set their own toolchain prefix.
> We mostly care about what crossgcc creates. Other toolchains work (or
> not) at the user's risk.
>
You mean that we need using crossgcc creates our own ARM-gcc cross
toolchain? Why must we do this? Could we just trust the famous and
mostly used toolchain like g++? In this script, it says that it could
not create an ARM toolchain. Should I fix it?
>
> Patrick
>