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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11 v3] enable "make ARCH=x86"
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On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:35:01PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> In fact, we should be able to get rid of ARCH entirely;  CONFIG_ options 
> have the huge advantage that they're saved in a file, and you don't have to 
> type them on every make run. The only option that I can't see us getting 
> rid of easily is HOSTCC, since it is used before config is run, but 
> probably something clever can be done there, too.

Yes, please!  One of the more annoying things is forgetting the
ARCH=um when rebuilding UML.  It would be awfully nice if ARCH was set
via a CONFIG_ option and was persistent.

					- Ted
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