Re: [PATCH] kbuild: honor the ARCH setting of the existingconfiguration

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon Aug 01 2011 - 04:43:12 EST


On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 19:05 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> > I would love to see $ARCH turned into a proper configuration option.
>
> I don't object in principle, but I'm expecting to have to modify/update
> multiple *working* scripts as a result. But of course this won't be
> the first time and I don't expect it to be the last time either.
> [signed: eeyore]

:)

Yeah, that's why I'd kind of like to see it done *once*, *properly*.

Arnaud's hack to read it from .config is cute, but might give behaviour
that people will come to depend on in their scripts and then we take it
away again.

--
dwmw2

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