From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754136AbXFMCMs (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:12:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752372AbXFMCMj (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:12:39 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:33398 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752324AbXFMCMj (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:12:39 -0400 Message-ID: <466F527E.1010106@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:12:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Oleg Verych , Randy Dunlap , Rusty Russell , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, LKML Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] [patch] kbuild: remember ARCH in the object directory References: <200705090951.l499pa6G020397@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20070509204613.GA10336@uranus.ravnborg.org> <1178755780.7286.175.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070611125903.GA3933@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20070612091209.760b5225.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070612171922.GG7266@flower.upol.cz> <20070612180957.GD15329@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20070612180957.GD15329@uranus.ravnborg.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > If we go the "save important parts of the config" I prefer > something along the suggestion by hpa with a config file. > The config file should though be named along the lines > of Kbuild.config and the syntax should be future proof. > I like the syntax of the .git/config file and > it should be along these lines. > It's actually derived from the Windows 3.x config file. I think it's massive overkill for this purpose; since the variables can be set on the command line we're not dealing with multiple namespaces, and it would be better to have a make-like syntax. -hpa