From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756262AbXKEEBm (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Nov 2007 23:01:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754580AbXKEEBf (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Nov 2007 23:01:35 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58185 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753385AbXKEEBe (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Nov 2007 23:01:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:01:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20071104.200133.103599780.davem@davemloft.net> To: bunk@kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, sam@ravnborg.org, thomas@archlinux.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1-82798a1 compile failure (x86_64) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20071104152930.GL12045@stusta.de> References: <20071104100429.GA12311@elte.hu> <20071104.023133.241080055.davem@davemloft.net> <20071104152930.GL12045@stusta.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Adrian Bunk Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:29:30 +0100 > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 02:31:33AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > People can't have it both ways. CFLAGS has global meaning in every > > Makefile based build tree, it's not an "autoconf" thing. This is well > > established practice, and I think it's a good thing the kernel does it > > now too. > > Makefiles do normally not pick such variables from the environment. The absolutely do. All of the default builtin compilation rules inside of GNU make, and every other UNIX make out there, do.