On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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}
>
Thanks.
How about splitting a part of arch/*/Makefile into
arch/*/Makefile.arch and including this new Makefile.arch from the
top-level Makefile instead?
-include $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile
+include $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile.arch
(I know you're busy these days, but do you think I would waste my time
in pursuing this any further? :-))
Vegard
--
"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
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