From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 01:53:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix IA64 build with separate source and build trees. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:24:47 +1000, Peter Chubb said: Peter> Main advantage is it makes this bit of code almost identical Peter> between architectures, so that when someone updates it a Peter> simple grep will find it everywhere. And yes, it should be Peter> ${ARCH} everywhere htat there's identical code between Peter> architectures (which means everywhere, for simplicity as to Peter> know when to use what) I think we're going in circles. Originally, I had $(ARCH) for similar reasons as you state and then they got replaced by ia64 in the big Makefile rewrite. I don't really care much one way or the other, but let's be consistent. AFAIK, currently everybody is using the architecture name, so we probably should stick to that. --david