From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: honor the ARCH setting of the existing configuration
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:42:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312188139.18010.104.camel@i7.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <317e3210947c039a33b970300e62d53d.squirrel@xenotime.net>
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 19:05 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> > 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]
:)
Yeah, that's why I'd kind of like to see it done *once*, *properly*.
Arnaud's hack to read it from .config is cute, but might give behaviour
that people will come to depend on in their scripts and then we take it
away again.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-01 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-31 19:44 Aunt Tillie
2011-07-31 20:20 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 22:07 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 22:34 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 23:20 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-01 2:05 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-08-01 8:42 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2011-08-01 17:33 ` Arnaud Lacombe
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