Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:28:00 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slightly enhance cross builds |
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:50:52AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > > Though I admit that I never build inside the source tree, I can't see > what you apparently do. Where/how would the behavior differ? If you just > mean the fact that in-source-tree builds will need to continue to > specify ARCH/SUBARCH on the make command line, then of course yes, this > is going to be different. But building in the source tree is a bad idea > in general in my opinion, and hence I would view this as the price you > pay. That's anyway how most users builds kernel.
> Of course this information could be stored in a hidden file in the > output tree (rather than in mkmakefile itself) if that's more > desirable... Plan has been to add this during *config step to .config. But I have been sidetracked the few times I looked at it.
Having it as part of *config process is good because - this is when you configure the kernel - .config is a natural file to keep configuration within - and then we have same functionality with and without O=...
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