Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:27:43 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Recursive variable `KBUILD_CFLAGS' references itself (eventually).
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:10:21AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:16:19PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
>  > > Trying to do a 32bit build on a 64bit machine.
>  > > I did..
>  > >   make ARCH=i386 oldconfig
>  > >   make ARCH=i386 arch/x86/
>  > 
>  > Walking through my mailbox I found this one.
>  > I did not get similar reports and I cannot reproduce it.
>  > Do you continue to see this or had it been fixed somehow?
> 
> Still happens for me with the latest tree from git.
> 
> $ make ARCH=i386 arch/x86/

There is no easy fx for this one.
You try to build one of the non-standard directories and it just
fails because arch/x86/Makefile is not a regular Kbuild file.

Try with any other directory (almost any other) and it works.
Considered unfortunate but not a bug - so I will not try to fix it.

	Sam
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