From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753746Ab1HAInH (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 04:43:07 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:34753 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753531Ab1HAImn (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 04:42:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: honor the ARCH setting of the existing configuration From: David Woodhouse To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Arnaud Lacombe , Michal Marek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:42:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <317e3210947c039a33b970300e62d53d.squirrel@xenotime.net> References: <1312141497-13854-1-git-send-email-lacombar@gmail.com> <1312143643.12369.32.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1312151687.18010.31.camel@i7.infradead.org> <317e3210947c039a33b970300e62d53d.squirrel@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 (3.0.2-3.fc15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312188139.18010.104.camel@i7.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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