On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:48:26AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > This patchset unify the i386 and x86_64 Kconfig > files for x86. > In addition it replaces the use of ARCH=i386 and > ARCH=x86_64 with the more intuitive ARCH=x86. > > The primary purpose of this patch serie is to > enable make ARCH=x86 and let the config decide > if we are building for 32 or 64 bit.
Nice! Thanks a lot for the work. > But we will break quite a high number of > scripts with this change. > What is the desired behaviour when specifying: > make ARCH=i386 > and > make ARCH=x86_64 > ?? > > For now it just error out like this: > $ make ARCH=i386 > Makefile:503: /home/sam/kernel/x86.git/arch/i386/Makefile: No such file or > directory > make: *** No rule to make target > `/home/sam/kernel/x86.git/arch/i386/Makefile'. Stop. Sounds fine, other architectures had that exactly same issue before. Maybe we can add a more useful message thouigh like $ARCH does not exist for any non-existant arch. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/