On Sun, July 31, 2011 3:34 pm, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 18:07 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> I think you totally miss the point of the patch as you keep being >> self-centered on x86. > > I'm focusing on x86 at the moment because x86 is the only architecture > that's *broken* in this respect. The other architectures that you > mention below, where they support 64-bit kernels, all work fine with > only *one* ARCH= setting covering all configurations. It's only x86 > where we haven't actually *finished* the merge. > >> I am working with configuration for mips, sh, powerpc, arm and x86. >> Some of them are for real board, some of them are to regress-test >> compilers, binutils and kernel builds. Each of those config hardcode >> the CROSS_COMPILER string and have their own build directory. In each >> case, I want to be able to just run "make O=/src/obj/v3.0-arm >> oldnoconfig all" without having to worry about anything else. > > Yes, that's a valid but *separate* problem. FWIW I usually solve this > problem with a two-line GNUmakefile: > ARCH := arm > include Makefile > > I haven't checked whether it works for out-of-source-tree builds; I bet > it could be made to. > > I would love to see $ARCH turned into a proper configuration option. I don't object in principle, but I'm expecting to have to modify/update multiple *working* scripts as a result. But of course this won't be the first time and I don't expect it to be the last time either. [signed: eeyore] -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
