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Jiri Olsa committed 0c3b7e42616
tools build: Add support for host programs format In some cases, like for fixdep and shortly for jevents, we need to build a tool to run on the host that will be used in building a tool, such as perf, that is being cross compiled, so do like the kernel and provide HOSTCC, HOSTLD and HOSTAR to do that. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Requested-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Requested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160927141846.GA6589@krava Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>