Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: honor the ARCH setting of the existing configuration | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:42:17 +0100 |
| |
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.
-- dwmw2
| |