linux-kernel - Re: Recursive variable `KBUILD_CFLAGS' references itself (eventually).

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Message-ID: <20080124213406.GD3944@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:34:06 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Recursive variable `KBUILD_CFLAGS' references itself (eventually).

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:31:18PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Jan 24 2008 22:27, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >>  > > Trying to do a 32bit build on a 64bit machine.
> >>  > > I did..
> >>  > >   make ARCH=i386 oldconfig
> >>  > >   make ARCH=i386 arch/x86/
> >>  > 
> >>  > Walking through my mailbox I found this one.
> >>  > I did not get similar reports and I cannot reproduce it.
> >>  > Do you continue to see this or had it been fixed somehow?
> >> 
> >> Still happens for me with the latest tree from git.
> >> 
> >> $ make ARCH=i386 arch/x86/
> >
> >There is no easy fx for this one.
> >You try to build one of the non-standard directories and it just
> >fails because arch/x86/Makefile is not a regular Kbuild file.
> >
> >Try with any other directory (almost any other) and it works.
> >Considered unfortunate but not a bug - so I will not try to fix it.
> 
> So, how are we going to build only arch/x86/ right now with kbuild?

It is not poissible.

You can do:
make arch/x86/kernel/
make arch/x86/lib/
make arch/x86/mm/

But there is no easy way to build them in one go.

	Sam
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