[FE training-materials-updates] labs/autotools-usage: ethtool doesn't display build/system types

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jun 2 03:46:43 CEST 2015


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commit 9c446a2da2f595ff1e1e61284c61ed5268086feb
Author: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 1 21:03:16 2015 +0200

    labs/autotools-usage: ethtool doesn't display build/system types
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>


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9c446a2da2f595ff1e1e61284c61ed5268086feb
 labs/autotools-usage/autotools-usage.tex | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/labs/autotools-usage/autotools-usage.tex b/labs/autotools-usage/autotools-usage.tex
index b481299..1052cd5 100644
--- a/labs/autotools-usage/autotools-usage.tex
+++ b/labs/autotools-usage/autotools-usage.tex
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ Read the output of \code{./configure --help}.
 
 \section{First build}
 
-Run \code{./configure}, and look at the output. Especially check the
-{\em build} and {\em host} systems that are detected. Also look at the
+Run \code{./configure}, and look at the output. Also look at the
 contents of the \code{config.log} file.
 
 Then, run the build with \code{make}.
@@ -73,9 +72,8 @@ build if the source tree has been configured (which we did in the
 previous section of this lab). So as suggested, clean up the {\em
   ethtool} source tree by running \code{make distclean}.
 
-If you check the {\em build} and {\em host} system types, you can see
-that we're still doing native compilation. To cross-compile {\em
-  ethtool}, we'll first have to install a cross-compiler:
+To cross-compile {\em ethtool}, we'll first have to install a
+cross-compiler:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf
@@ -87,9 +85,6 @@ Then you can do:
 ../ethtool-3.18/configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf
 \end{verbatim}
 
-Check again the detected {\em build} and {\em host} system types. Now
-the {\em host} system type should be different!
-
 Start the build, and verify that the cross-compiler is used.
 
 \section{Overriding cache variables}



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