I am attempting to specify a host compiler via the file
~/.ptxdist/ptxdistrc-2015.02

PTXCONF_SETUP_HOST_CPP="cpp-4.8"
PTXCONF_SETUP_HOST_CC="gcc-4.8"
PTXCONF_SETUP_HOST_CXX="g++-4.8"
PTXCONF_SETUP_HOST_MAKE="make"

I think this is ptxdist setup developer options.

I expected ptxdist to use these compilers to build host-* packages, but
instead it is using gcc and g++.

I'm including a patch which behaves more the way I expect below. Would you
guys care to comment on how I should have done this? I would like to build
my firmware on different ubuntu versions which come with different
compilers.

Thanks,
Sandy Patterson

--- ptxdist-2015.02.0-orig/rules/other/Namespace.make 2017-10-26
15:20:35.925028016 -0400
+++ ptxdist-2015.02.0/rules/other/Namespace.make 2017-10-26
15:21:19.248999794 -0400
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 PTXCONF_COMPILER_PREFIX := $(call remove_quotes,
$(PTXCONF_COMPILER_PREFIX))
 COMPILER_PREFIX := $(PTXCONF_COMPILER_PREFIX)

-HOSTCC := gcc
-HOSTCXX := g++
+HOSTCC := $(call remove_quotes, $(PTXCONF_SETUP_HOST_CC))
+HOSTCXX := $(call remove_quotes, $(PTXCONF_SETUP_HOST_CXX))

 PTXCONF_ARCH_STRING := $(call remove_quotes, $(PTXCONF_ARCH_STRING))
 PTXCONF_KERNEL_ARCH_STRING := $(call remove_quotes,
$(PTXCONF_KERNEL_ARCH_STRING))