Re: [PATCH] kconfig: store default ARCH in .config

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 12:02 +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>> This patch makes cross-compilation configuration fully statefull.
>> Default ARCH is stored in .config as CONFIG_DEFAULT_ARCH.
>> After initial configuration specifying ARCH= is no longer required.
>>
>> To avoid recursion it is read directly from .config using scritps/config
>> because include/config/auto.conf is not yet included at this point.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
> It this needed because the Kconfig symbol ARCH is set only if ARCH is
> set in the environment?
>
> Could the same result be had by saving CONFIG_ARCH in .config (I suppose
> it actually already is) and then use its value on builds with

No, currently it's not saved in .config, so I guess that's why this convoluted
approach is needed.

> that .config unless ARCH is specified in the environment again? Ie,
> change the "option env=[...]" semantics a bit, perhaps by special casing
> CONFIG_ARCH.

Indeed.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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