[CMake] Building a tool to run on the host when cross-compiling

[Bill Hoffman]

On 1/17/2013 5:01 PM, Christopher Lansing wrote:
>
> It definitely sounds like an interesting and promising combination. The
> one snag I hit when I tried that was that the project I tried to use
> through ExternalProject seemed to automatically pick up the toolchain
> that I'd specified for the main project. If that's the way it works,
> then I'm probably stuck.
>
> If there's a way to make it not do that, then I probably missed an
> option somewhere. I'll have to play around with it some more and see if
> I can find a way to make that work.
You should be able to force any values you need into the cache of the 
sub-projects and make it do whatever you need it to.



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