Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 May 2011 08:12:15 -0400 | From | Ted Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig' |
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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:55:47AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I'll always prefer typing: > > make ARCH=x86_64 ... > > To: > > make ARCH=x86 CONFIG_64BIT=y ... > > You're not building on an x86 box? I always suspected you had some alien > technology! Does it run Linux? > > Why else would you need to specify ARCH=x86 on the latter command line?
I don't know why Ingo needs ARCH=x86 on the command line, but I regularly type "make ARCH=i386" when building 32-bit kernels on a 64-bit system, and my scripts use "make ARCH=x86_64" when building 64-bit kernels (just in case I happen to have booted a 32-bit kernel).
- Ted
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