MIPS Makefile not picking up CROSS_COMPILE from environment setting

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Hello,

I noticed that, unlike for other architectures like ARM  or  PowerPC,
the  MIPS Makefile does not pick up the settings from a CROSS_COMPILE
environment variable, at least not with many (all?) default  configu-
rations.

This makes no sense to me - is there an intention behind it?

Or should I submit a patch  to  use  an  environment  setting  if  it
exists, i. e. somthing like this:

diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index 08355eb..caa04a0 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ UTS_MACHINE           := mips64
 endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CROSSCOMPILE
-CROSS_COMPILE          := $(tool-prefix)
+CROSS_COMPILE          ?= $(tool-prefix)
 endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_32BIT



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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