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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
	parisc-linux-request@lists.parisc-linux.org,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: parisc arch makefile clean-up needed [Was: cleaning up "make headers_install" for various architectures]
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:41:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010204139.GA3255@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071010202128.GG2730@parisc-linux.org>

> 
> Now, compiler.h has some checks like:
> 
> #elif __GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 2
> # include <linux/compiler-gcc3.h>
> #else
> # error Sorry, your compiler is too old/not recognized.
> #endif
> 
> But it doesn't permit us to rule out gcc 3.3 unless we patch compiler.h.
> There's no asm/compiler.h, for example.  Obviously, we could put some
> tests for compiler version in arch/parisc somewhere.  Where's the right
> place these days?

Good question...
I prefer the solution used by powerpc.
See the checkbin dependency of archprepare:

archprepare: is only triggered when we actually try to build a kernel,
and will not trigger for the said headers_install thing.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-10 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-10 16:44 cleaning up "make headers_install" for various architectures Robert P. J. Day
2007-10-10 16:59 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-10 17:26   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-10-10 18:38     ` parisc arch makefile clean-up needed [Was: cleaning up "make headers_install" for various architectures] Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-10 19:38       ` Kyle McMartin
2007-10-10 19:58         ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-10 20:21       ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-10 20:41         ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-10-10 21:33         ` Robert P. J. Day
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-10 19:15 [matthew@wil.cx: Re: [parisc-linux] parisc arch makefile clean-up needed [Was: cleaning up "make headers_install" for various architectures]] Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-10 19:54 ` parisc arch makefile clean-up needed [Was: cleaning up "make headers_install" for various architectures] Sam Ravnborg

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