Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:13:31 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:03:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I don't mind the current default, but saying I shouldn't be able to 
> override it is asinine.
No-one asked for it until now.
Any preferred syntax to disable this dependency check?

> 
> It also means "make install" is largely unusable.

Maybe we should not let install be dependent on vmlinux then?

	Sam
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