Re: [PATCH] Saving ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE in generated Makefile

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 18:24:28 EST


On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:11:07PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Unfortunately, builds in the source directory would not profit from this
> patch. Perhaps we could always generate "makefile" or "GNUmakefile" in
> the build directory, but it would be another patch. Anyway, few people
> cross-compile their kernels, and it's not unreasonable to encourage them
> to use out-of-tree builds.
>
> SUBARCH is not saved on purpose, since users are not supposed to
> override it.

WTF not? Consider, e.g. uml/i386 and uml/amd64.

In any case, there's no reason to mess with that at all. This stuff is
trivally dealt with by a wrapper script that takes target name as its
first argument (the rest is passed to make unchanged) and figures out
ARCH, CROSS_COMPILE, SUBARCH and build directory by it. End of story.
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