From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030364AbVKHV13 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:27:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030369AbVKHV13 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:27:29 -0500 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:58218 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030364AbVKHV13 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:27:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:28:00 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Jan Beulich Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel Subject: Re: [PATCH] slightly enhance cross builds Message-ID: <20051108212800.GB8256@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <436F5D96.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <20051107230426.GD10492@mars.ravnborg.org> <437066EC.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <437066EC.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 Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:50:52AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > > Though I admit that I never build inside the source tree, I can't see > what you apparently do. Where/how would the behavior differ? If you just > mean the fact that in-source-tree builds will need to continue to > specify ARCH/SUBARCH on the make command line, then of course yes, this > is going to be different. But building in the source tree is a bad idea > in general in my opinion, and hence I would view this as the price you > pay. That's anyway how most users builds kernel. > Of course this information could be stored in a hidden file in the > output tree (rather than in mkmakefile itself) if that's more > desirable... Plan has been to add this during *config step to .config. But I have been sidetracked the few times I looked at it. Having it as part of *config process is good because - this is when you configure the kernel - .config is a natural file to keep configuration within - and then we have same functionality with and without O=... Sam