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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/11 v3] enable "make ARCH=x86"
Paul Mundt wrote:
> Indeed, that's what I was intending on keeping around as a convention,
> and simply overloading SRCARCH for the sh64 case. i386/x86_64 potentially
> has the same issue though, and if the intent is to have a single ARCH for
> both of them, I don't see how that would possibly work without
> sacrificing randconfig.. unless the intended x86 convention is that one
> compiler will happily handle both i386 and x86_64 without any difficulty?

Well, that *is* the normal thing on x86.

HOWEVER, I think the right thing for allyesconfig, allmodconfig,
randconfig, etc. is to be able to override specific variables. Right
now, one has to use indirection via a file, which is a bit clumsy; it
would be better if one could do "make allyesconfig CONFIG_X86_64=y" or
somesuch.

In fact, we should be able to get rid of ARCH entirely; CONFIG_ options
have the huge advantage that they're saved in a file, and you don't have
to type them on every make run. The only option that I can't see us
getting rid of easily is HOSTCC, since it is used before config is run,
but probably something clever can be done there, too.

-hpa
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