Re: why doesn't "--program-prefix=<foo>" work?

[Josh Fryman <fryman at cc dot gatech dot edu>]

> Hmm, so specifying --program-prefix=foo- would give
> foo-powerpc-elf-gcc?  I don't think I agree with you; that's a pretty
> unintuitive change, and it's also not parallel to the way we search for
> cross tools.  It seems to me that this should generate a GCC whose name
> looks like the GAS it will use.

i agree. the point of applying the --program-prefix is to replace the
'armv-linux-' prefix with something more specific to the optimization
of the chain, such as 'xscale-linux-' or just plain 'xscale-' ... 
otherwise i'd have the following really long and annoying names:

  sa110-arm-linux-
  xscale-arm-linux-
  sa1110-arm-linux-

and so forth.

-j