On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 12:02 +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: >> This patch makes cross-compilation configuration fully statefull. >> Default ARCH is stored in .config as CONFIG_DEFAULT_ARCH. >> After initial configuration specifying ARCH= is no longer required. >> >> To avoid recursion it is read directly from .config using scritps/config >> because include/config/auto.conf is not yet included at this point. >> >> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- > > It this needed because the Kconfig symbol ARCH is set only if ARCH is > set in the environment? > > Could the same result be had by saving CONFIG_ARCH in .config (I suppose > it actually already is) and then use its value on builds with No, currently it's not saved in .config, so I guess that's why this convoluted approach is needed. > that .config unless ARCH is specified in the environment again? Ie, > change the "option env=[...]" semantics a bit, perhaps by special casing > CONFIG_ARCH. Indeed. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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