Re: [PATCH 10/11] scripts/Makefile.build: do not reference EXTRA_CFLAGS as CFLAGS replacement

Michal Marek
2011-08-31T14:43:14Z

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 01:07:13AM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Usage of these flags has been deprecated for nearly 4 years by:
>
> commit f77bf01425b11947eeb3b5b54685212c302741b8
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@neptun.(none)>
> Date: Mon Oct 15 22:25:06 2007 +0200
>
> kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
>
> Moreover, these flags (at least EXTRA_CFLAGS) have been documented for command
> line use. By default, gmake(1) do not override command line setting, so this is
> likely to result in build failure or unexpected behavior.
>
> Do not advertise for its usage.
>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org

Thanks, I applied this to kbuild-2.6.git#kbuild with your signoff
assumed.

Michal