On 8/21/20 10:22 AM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 02:29:40PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: >> Subject: x86/defconfigs: Explicitly unset CONFIG_64BIT in i386_defconfig >> >> A recent refresh of the defconfigs got rid of the following (unset) >> config: >> >> # CONFIG_64BIT is not set >> >> Innocuous as it seems, when the config file is saved again the >> behavior is changed so that CONFIG_64BIT=y. >> >> Currently, >> >> $ make i386_defconfig >> $ grep CONFIG_64BIT .config >> CONFIG_64BIT=y >> >> whereas previously (and with this patch): >> >> $ make i386_defconfig >> $ grep CONFIG_64BIT .config >> # CONFIG_64BIT is not set > > It is highly, highly, highly advisable to always pass ARCH when dealing > with 32/64-bit archs: > > +---------------------------------------+ > | make ARCH=x86_64 defconfig | > | make ARCH=i386 defconfig | > +---------------------------------------+
I certainly always do that and I also avoid ARCH=x86 although it is supported/allowed. -- ~Randy
