Re: [PATCH RFC 1/1] kbuild: enable overriding the compiler using the environment

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On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:14 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 01:37:14AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Only the problem I see is the situation where
> > a user directly runs scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh
> > without using make as a start-point.

Further, if it's possible to detect if merge_config.sh was invoked
from Make or not, it might be useful to warn or error when not invoked
via Make.

>
> This is really a very common thing for testing infrastructure to do,
> it'll combine a base defconfig with a fragment enabling extra stuff
> either to directly cover that extra stuff or to ensure that
> configuration options needed for testsuites get turned on.
>
> > A user can wrap merge_config.sh with a simple Makefile
> > if they want to override CC, HOSTCC, etc.
>
> If we want to do that it seems sensible to provide that Makefile
> upstream so there's a standard thing, it might also help people notice
> that they need to do this and avoid getting surprised.



-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers



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