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=...
Sam
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