Re: [kbuild-devel] [RFC/RFT] kbuild: save ARCH CROSS_COMPILE

2007-10-09 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:12:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:02:55PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: ... The settings are stored in the build directory in a file named Kbuild.config (should it be a .dot file?). ... A .dot file sounds better. I will make it .kbuild.

Re: [kbuild-devel] [RFC/RFT] kbuild: save ARCH CROSS_COMPILE

2007-10-09 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 06:17:43AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: What about, that this is the first ever prompt, that must be shown and written to the .config? Two issues to fix before we can do this: 1) chocie values cannot have more than one prompt what occupying all my time now is to try

Re: [kbuild-devel] [RFC/RFT] kbuild: save ARCH CROSS_COMPILE

2007-10-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 08:03:33AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:12:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: ... BTW: I'm currently trying without success to understand why the drivers/infiniband/{hw/amso1100,ulp/srp}/Kbuild files are not named Makefile. Giacomo

Re: [kbuild-devel] [RFC/RFT] kbuild: save ARCH CROSS_COMPILE

2007-10-09 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:09:06AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: If it is OK to drop the $(SUBARCH) assingment like this then yes. ARCH?= CROSS_COMPILE ?= Does the UML build still work when you do that? The

Re: [kbuild-devel] [RFC/RFT] kbuild: save ARCH CROSS_COMPILE

2007-10-08 Thread Oleg Verych
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:02:55PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: One of the complaints that I continue to hear is that kbuild is lacking a way to 'remember' the ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE values originally used. Yea, finally. What about, that this is the first ever prompt, that must be shown and

Re: [kbuild-devel] [RFC/RFT] kbuild: save ARCH CROSS_COMPILE

2007-10-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:02:55PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: ... The settings are stored in the build directory in a file named Kbuild.config (should it be a .dot file?). ... A .dot file sounds better. And even if not, generated files should IMHO not share the Kbuild* namespace with

Re: [kbuild-devel] [RFC/RFT] kbuild: save ARCH CROSS_COMPILE

2007-10-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
What about, that this is the first ever prompt, that must be shown and written to the .config? Two issues to fix before we can do this: 1) chocie values cannot have more than one prompt 2) We need to share much more Kconfig* between the individual architectures First step is to let all

Re: [kbuild-devel] [RFC/RFT] kbuild: save ARCH CROSS_COMPILE

2007-10-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
2) We need to share much more Kconfig* between the individual architectures First step is to let all arch's use drivers/Kconfig 2) isn't terribly difficult, just takes some time and willingness of $arch maintainers to some changes, but please explain a bit more why it is needed...? A