On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:14:31PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is a regression or what (I've observed it for a
> while), but now I thought I'd let you know about it:
>
> $ make arch/x86/
> CHK include/linux/version.h
> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
> CC kernel/bounds.s
> GEN include/linux/bounds.h
> CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> GEN include/asm-x86/asm-offsets.h
> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> [...]/linux-2.6/arch/x86/Makefile:37: *** Recursive variable
> `KBUILD_CFLAGS' references itself (eventually). Stop.
> make: *** [arch/x86/] Error 2
This is unfortunately what you should expect
because the directory arch/x86/ is special as it does
not contain a regular Kbuild file but instead contains
a badly named arch configuration file (Makefile).
>
> Are there any work-arounds or easy fixes for this? Thanks.
For each directory in arch/x86/* do make arch/x86/{directory}
Sam
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