Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:47:44 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler |
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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:03:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>I don't mind the current default, but saying I shouldn't be able to >>override it is asinine. > > No-one asked for it until now.
That's of course perfectly fair, and I'm not flaming you for saying that noone had asked for it. Saying that it *shouldn't* be done is another matter, that's all.
> Any preferred syntax to disable this dependency check?
How about "make CCDEP=0"?
> >>It also means "make install" is largely unusable. > > Maybe we should not let install be dependent on vmlinux then?
Maybe not. I don't think "modules_install" have any explicit dependencies, it's up to the user to make sure things are already built, so we might as well do the same thing with "make install".
-hpa
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