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Subject: Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:58:04 +0200
To: Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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If ARCH doesn't match uname for some definition of match?

Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>
>> The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32.
>> These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH !=
>SUBARCH.
>> Do really need that behavior?
>
>Not precisely that, but it’s very common in m68k land
>to just cross-build kernels with
>
>$ make ARCH=m68k menuconfig
>$ make ARCH=m68k
>
>Maybe a generalising of that feature, and making it
>independent of SUBARCH (which can then die)?
>
>bye,
>//mirabilos

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