Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler

[H. Peter Anvin]

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

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