Re: 2.6.23-mm1

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-12T07:23:25Z

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:42:02 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:03:28 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:31:26 -0700
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/
> > >
> > > - I've been largely avoiding applying anything since rc8-mm2 in an attempt
> > > to stabilise things for the 2.6.23 merge.
> > >
> > On RHEL5/x86_64 environment,
> >
> > ==
> > [kamezawa@hannibal ref-2.6.23-mm1]$ make menuconfig
> > Makefile:456: /home/kamezawa/ref-2.6.23-mm1/arch//Makefile: No such file or directory
> > make: *** No rule to make target `/home/kamezawa/ref-2.6.23-mm1/arch//Makefile'. Stop.
> > ==
> >
> > $(ARCH) cannot be detected automatically...
>
> So you need to set $ARCH by hand? I always do that so I didn't notice this.
>
Yes, I need to set it by hand.

This is a quick fix for me......
Maybe $(ARCH) should be undefined until following .kbuild check.

ifneq ($(wildcard .kbuild),)
...
else
ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH)
endif

-Kame

--
Index: ref-2.6.23-mm1/Makefile
===================================================================
--- ref-2.6.23-mm1.orig/Makefile
+++ ref-2.6.23-mm1/Makefile
@@ -191,7 +191,6 @@ SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i

# The empty ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE statements exist so it is easy to
# patch in hardcoded values for ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE
-ARCH ?=
CROSS_COMPILE ?=

# Kbuild save the ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE setting in .kbuild