Re: [bug #33034] Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. for Linux kernel out of source builds

2011-11-10 Thread David Boyce
Judging from the outpouring of support I received when I made the same suggestion/offer :-( I'm unsurprised at seeing no public response to yours either. But disappointed. I agree that this is a real problem which does not seem to resonate with those not directly affected by it. I think the best

Re: [bug #33034] Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. for Linux kernel out of source builds

2011-11-10 Thread tz
I doubt there is much reason to expect public support. Remember the response to my request: I really am not interested in changing all the error messages to give details about which version of GNU make that error was introduced, and I'm also not interested in adding flags to every version of GNU

Re: [bug #33034] Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. for Linux kernel out of source builds

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
David Boyce wrote: I'm unsurprised at seeing no public response to yours either. But disappointed. I'm not disappointed. Paul doesn't work for me so there is no obligation for him to write patches or design specs supporting my use cases. And neverthless, so far I've had no reason to be

Re: [bug #33034] Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. for Linux kernel out of source builds

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 10:36 -0500, tz wrote: Unfortunately, in the embedded world, not everything is updated constantly. Even the desktop is not updated weekly. ARM is still at Fedora 12, though 16 was just released. I don't and won't have an updated kernel tree that works unless I find

Re: [bug #33034] Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. for Linux kernel out of source builds

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Paul Smith wrote: Today you're having an issue with make, but tomorrow it will be a change in GCC, or binutils, or whatever... then what? Will you be asking GCC to add a special flag to switch back to old behavior just to support older Linux kernels? Not going to happen. Why is this

Re: [bug #33034] Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. for Linux kernel out of source builds

2011-11-10 Thread tz
On Nov 10, 2011 2:32 PM, Paul Smith psm...@gnu.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 10:36 -0500, tz wrote: I doubt the entire tree in the FSF repository can be properly cross-compiled. Debian has taken to arrays of the various processors so they can go native. You don't need to