From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace "make ARCH=i386/x86_64 with make ARCH=x86"
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:41:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071105104129.GB3662@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071103234826.GA26654@uranus.ravnborg.org>
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:48:26AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> This patchset unify the i386 and x86_64 Kconfig
> files for x86.
> In addition it replaces the use of ARCH=i386 and
> ARCH=x86_64 with the more intuitive ARCH=x86.
>
> The primary purpose of this patch serie is to
> enable make ARCH=x86 and let the config decide
> if we are building for 32 or 64 bit.
Nice! Thanks a lot for the work.
> But we will break quite a high number of
> scripts with this change.
> What is the desired behaviour when specifying:
> make ARCH=i386
> and
> make ARCH=x86_64
> ??
>
> For now it just error out like this:
> $ make ARCH=i386
> Makefile:503: /home/sam/kernel/x86.git/arch/i386/Makefile: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target `/home/sam/kernel/x86.git/arch/i386/Makefile'. Stop.
Sounds fine, other architectures had that exactly same issue before. Maybe
we can add a more useful message thouigh like
$ARCH does not exist for any non-existant arch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-03 23:48 Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-03 23:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-04 1:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-04 2:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-04 2:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-04 6:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-05 10:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-11-05 17:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-05 21:36 ` Roland Dreier
2007-11-05 21:49 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-05 23:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-06 0:40 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-11-06 0:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-06 1:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-06 1:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
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