Re: building in 32bit chroot on x86_64 host broken

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 6:38 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Was the v4.16 behavior intentional,
> or just something people found to work?

I don't think all the _details_ may be intentional, but the fact that

   make oldconfig

"just works" is definitely a good thing.

> "make ARCH=i386 allnoconfig" hides the prompt
> of 64BIT.
>
> Then, "make oldconfig" makes the prompt newly visible,
> so it is asking for user input.

The "hides the prompt for 64BIT" is just a technical detail.

It could equally well be a pre-determined Kconfig fragment that is
used to generate a particular Kconfig.

But once you *have* that particular Kconfig, I do think that "make
oldconfig" should just work. And it apparently used to.

So I think this is a behavioral regression.

           Linus