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))