Re: [PATCH 1/3] arch/um/Makefile: remove dead code

2013-07-05 Thread Al Viro
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 04:12:30PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Al Viro wrote: > > [...] > > IOW, any make variable (== macro in POSIX quote above) can be explicitly > > set in make(1) command line in form name=value and in that case nothing in > > makefile(s) can change its value. It's tr

Re: [PATCH 1/3] arch/um/Makefile: remove dead code

2013-07-05 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Al Viro wrote: > [...] > IOW, any make variable (== macro in POSIX quote above) can be explicitly > set in make(1) command line in form name=value and in that case nothing in > makefile(s) can change its value. It's true for GNU make, it's true for > BSD make and it's been true for historical Unix

Re: [PATCH 1/3] arch/um/Makefile: remove dead code

2013-07-04 Thread Al Viro
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 02:33:15AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > arch/um/Makefile is included in the toplevel Makefile:495. Well before > that, it unconditionally sets $SUBARCH (in Makefile:168) as follows: > > SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \ >

Re: [PATCH 1/3] arch/um/Makefile: remove dead code

2013-07-04 Thread Richard Weinberger
Am 04.07.2013 23:03, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra: > arch/um/Makefile is included in the toplevel Makefile:495. Well before > that, it unconditionally sets $SUBARCH (in Makefile:168) as follows: > > SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \ >

[PATCH 1/3] arch/um/Makefile: remove dead code

2013-07-04 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
arch/um/Makefile is included in the toplevel Makefile:495. Well before that, it unconditionally sets $SUBARCH (in Makefile:168) as follows: SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \