Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:33:14 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: honor the ARCH setting of the existing configuration | From | Arnaud Lacombe <> |
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Hi,
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:42 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 19:05 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> >> > I would love to see $ARCH turned into a proper configuration option. >> >> I don't object in principle, but I'm expecting to have to modify/update >> multiple *working* scripts as a result. But of course this won't be >> the first time and I don't expect it to be the last time either. >> [signed: eeyore] > > :) > > Yeah, that's why I'd kind of like to see it done *once*, *properly*. > > Arnaud's hack to read it from .config is cute, but might give behaviour > that people will come to depend on in their scripts and then we take it > away again. > Instead of talking of irrelevant implementation details, what _behavior_ do you expect ?
The priority I expect is (from most to least): 1. command line 2. existing configuration (.config) 3. Makefile's default 4. Kconfig default
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