Re: [PATCH v1] x86/defconfigs: Unbreak 32-bit defconfig builds

[Jarkko Nikula]

Hi

On 9/8/20 3:13 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > After the commit 1d0e12fd3a84 ("x86/defconfigs: Refresh defconfig files")
> > 32-bit builds using defconfig become broken because on x86_64 build host
> > with no ARCH provided the default behaviour is to assume 64-bit independently
> > on the configuration file name. The crucial part is CONFIG_64BIT option
> > that used to be explicit. Let restore the latter option in order to unbreak
> > 32-bit builds.
>
> So exactly which build method broke due to this? The typical way to do a defconfig build is:
>
>    make ARCH=i386 defconfig
>
> which still works fine AFAICS.
Maybe wrong way to do it, just plain "make i386_defconfig". I'm aware of 
ARCH=, but never needed to specify it for x86 targets.

Jarkko