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From: "Thomas Bächler" <thomas@archlinux.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	mingo@elte.hu, bunk@kernel.org, thomas@archlinux.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1-82798a1 compile failure (x86_64)
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:27:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <472DBAC0.7040802@archlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071104111640.GA17565@uranus.ravnborg.org>

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Sam Ravnborg schrieb:
> I'm afraid some people do not realize a whit about what they do.
> So at least we could let kbuild warn about it.
> Something like this:
> 
> $ export CFLAGS=-O3
> $ make AFLAGS=-fisk
> Makefile:540: "Appending $AFLAGS (-fisk) from command line to kernel defined $AFLAGS"
> Makefile:544: "Appending $CFLAGS (-O3) from environment to kernel defined $CFLAGS"
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
>   GEN     include/asm-x86/asm-offsets.h
>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>   CC      scripts/mod/empty.o

I agree, this is a sane way to do it. Would this patch have been
applied, I would have found the problem within minutes AND I would have
known that the kernel does use my CFLAGS, which I assumed it wouldn't.

Maybe you should prefix the message with a "WARNING: ".


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-04 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-29 21:46 2.6.24-rc1-82798a1 compile failure (x86_64) Thomas Bächler
2007-10-29 22:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found]   ` <47266BF6.6070206@archlinux.org>
     [not found]     ` <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710300033470.3186@localhost.localdomain>
2007-10-30  9:10       ` Thomas Bächler
2007-11-03 10:04         ` Thomas Bächler
2007-11-03 12:11           ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-04  2:02             ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-04 10:04               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-04 10:19                 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-04 10:31                 ` David Miller
2007-11-04 11:16                   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-04 12:27                     ` Thomas Bächler [this message]
2007-11-04 15:29                   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-04 15:55                     ` Oleg Verych
2007-11-04 16:19                     ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2007-11-04 16:34                       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-04 18:33                         ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2007-11-05  4:03                         ` David Miller
2007-11-04 18:10                     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-05  4:01                     ` David Miller
2007-11-06 17:32               ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-07  0:12                 ` Adrian Bunk

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