linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc1-82798a1 compile failure (x86

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Date:	Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:01:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bunk@...nel.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, sam@...nborg.org, thomas@...hlinux.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1-82798a1 compile failure (x86_64)

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:29:30 +0100

> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 02:31:33AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > People can't have it both ways.  CFLAGS has global meaning in every
> > Makefile based build tree, it's not an "autoconf" thing.  This is well
> > established practice, and I think it's a good thing the kernel does it
> > now too.
> 
> Makefiles do normally not pick such variables from the environment.

The absolutely do.

All of the default builtin compilation rules inside of GNU
make, and every other UNIX make out there, do.
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