Re: [PATCH] kbuild: honor the ARCH setting of the existing configuration

[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:42 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
Instead of talking of irrelevant implementation details, what
_behavior_ do you expect ?

The priority I expect is (from most to least):
 1. command line
 2. existing configuration (.config)
 3. Makefile's default
 4. Kconfig default

 - Arnaud
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