From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261535AbVAQW7q (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:59:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261541AbVAQW5a (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:57:30 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:24798 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262979AbVAQWs1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:48:27 -0500 Message-ID: <41EC4090.60709@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:47:44 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler References: <20050117220052.GB18293@mars.ravnborg.org> <41EC363D.1090106@zytor.com> <20050117221331.GC17132@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20050117221331.GC17132@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:03:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>I don't mind the current default, but saying I shouldn't be able to >>override it is asinine. > > No-one asked for it until now. That's of course perfectly fair, and I'm not flaming you for saying that noone had asked for it. Saying that it *shouldn't* be done is another matter, that's all. > Any preferred syntax to disable this dependency check? How about "make CCDEP=0"? > >>It also means "make install" is largely unusable. > > Maybe we should not let install be dependent on vmlinux then? Maybe not. I don't think "modules_install" have any explicit dependencies, it's up to the user to make sure things are already built, so we might as well do the same thing with "make install". -hpa