Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755495AbXKKVFc (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:05:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751417AbXKKVFX (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:05:23 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:62800 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751246AbXKKVFV (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:05:21 -0500 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11 v3] enable "make ARCH=x86" To: Theodore Tso , "H. Peter Anvin" , Paul Mundt , Jeff Garzik , Sam Ravnborg , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:03:58 +0100 References: <9nL9f-2n8-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <9nPcU-bm-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <9nTqh-6Cw-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <9nTTh-7w5-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <9nTTh-7w5-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <9nUcv-7UA-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <9o5hA-b8-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <9o640-1rJ-1@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18QhKK2vb6m4A4ayN/QfWAT/uhffbIEDJrNv6M wE4wCWDEMZp3vuheX6+FCjDBeSjp+GYLyT7wWTzWz8FZKwZ/xR 58BbQvVhrtuB918vmdISw== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1298 Lines: 20 Theodore Tso wrote: > 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. This should have been fixed, or it's about to be fixed. My patch is here: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/93e5c33fc6e8cff6/39aff558a636ad02 (This patch was superseded by another patch, which may be delayed or mm-only.) OTOH, if you can implement ARCH= using CONFIG_ARCH, why not? Just don't forget to keep the scripts running, and make randconfig only select buildable archs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/