COMPILER_TYPE and installworld

[Adrian Chadd]

On 4 November 2015 at 23:46, NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 4, 2015, at 23:08, O'Connor, Daniel <darius at dons.net.au> wrote:
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>>
>>> On 5 Nov 2015, at 16:31, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> So! In the short term, is there any way that during
>>> installworld/installkernel we can also set CC, etc appropriately?
>>> Otherwise we're either using the wrong compiler logic/version
>>> (installkernel) or we're just plain not going to work (installworld.)
>>
>> Why does installworld/kernel care what the compiler type is?
>>
>> Or is it just something incidental which gets pulled in that complains because it can't work it out? If so perhaps the easiest way would be to add a flag which turns off compiler detection and set it for install*
>>
>> If install* _do_ need to know the compiler type then, bleh..
>
> It shouldn’t care. bsd.compiler.mk just has the intelligence of a stump and Makefile.inc1 doesn’t tell bsd.compiler.mk to do otherwise in the distribution/install phases.
>
> If it were up to me, CC would be false when make install* is run from Makefile.inc1.

I don't mind what people do, I'd just really appreciate some help
fixing this up. I think we're pretty close to being able to transition
mips over to using 100% external toolchain only, and this is the
starting point.

So, what can we do? Pretty please? :)



-adrian