I've added Yann and Michal to the discussion. The issue is that we have hostprogs-y := disable-tsc-ctxt-sw-stress-test disable-tsc-on-off-stress-test disable-tsc-test in Documentation/prctl/Makefile and disable-tsc-ctxt-sw-stress-test has x86 assembler inside and must be restricted only to this host architecture. 2014-11-02 11:16 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>: > > > On 02.11.14 08:46, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote: >> I wish I knew. We need KBuild guru to ask how to take into account >> host architecture. > > Hrm. At least this patch makes things more consistent with the other > Documentation makefiles: > > Documentation/timers/Makefile:hostprogs-$(CONFIG_X86) := hpet_example > Documentation/vDSO/Makefile:hostprogs-$(CONFIG_X86) := > vdso_standalone_test_x86 > > But I agree, it is wrong in general - hostprogs should make sure the > host arch matches. > > We could maybe just evaluate the host uname output: > > ifeq ($(shell uname -m),x86_64) > hostprogs-$(CONFIG_X86) := ... > endif > > Then we're double safe ;). Not sure how to easily add x86 to the mix as > well here, but I'm not sure anyone cares. Do people still compile on > 32bit x86 hosts? And expect Documentation/ examples to build? > > > Alex -- With best regards, Matwey V. Kornilov http://blog.matwey.name xmpp://0x2207@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html