From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965079AbVKGXEI (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:04:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965586AbVKGXEI (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:04:08 -0500 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:24900 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965079AbVKGXEG (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:04:06 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 00:04:26 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Jan Beulich Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] slightly enhance cross builds Message-ID: <20051107230426.GD10492@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <436F5D96.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <436F5D96.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:58:46PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > This adds functionality to default CROSS_COMPILE to a sensible value > when cross-building (so one doesn't always have to specify this on the > make command line), as well as storing ARCH and SUBARCH in the > Makefile > generated when building outside of the source directory (so that > subsequent make invocations don't have to always repeat these). This patch introduce different behaviour with and without make O= This will result on confusion and is bad. The right approach is to come up with a patch that works in both cases. Sam