Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc2] Correct CPPFLAGS in arch/ia64/sn

Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-06T19:10:43Z

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:34:42PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> When building a specific object or subdirectory, kbuild does not do a
> recursive make, instead it starts with the Makefile for the file or
> directory. Therefore flags which are set in higher level Makefiles are
> missing. The only way to make kbuild work when building a specific
> object/directory is not to rely on flag propagation, instead the flags
> must be set in each Makefile. IA64 SN directories have this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

There is no other way to achieve this today.
sn is specific since CPPFLAGS is only used in ia64/sn and below.

Sam