Re: [regressions] Re: kbuild: save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE whenbuilding a kernel

[Ingo Molnar]

* Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 12:34:41PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Sam,
> > 
> > that arch-cache thing introduced in:
> > 
> >  5755433: kbuild: save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE when building a kernel
> > 
> > isnt working very well in my experience.
> > 
> > 1) it's a nuisance in cross-builds (it broke several cross-build scripts 
> >    of mine)
>
> On the contrary it has helped me big time on my cross builds. [...]

Could you please try to do that without hurting the existing scripting 
and existing workflow of other people?

> No need to script is all to remember to set the correct ARCH + 
> CROSS_COMPILE settings.

Then put your new state into the .config instead of this stupid 
include/generated/ extra state that is a _big_ regression over v2.6.31 
in terms of cross-build usability.

	Ingo
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