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

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Dec 31 2007 - 08:16:34 EST


On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:14:45PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> Trying to do a 32bit build on a 64bit machine.
> I did..
> make ARCH=i386 oldconfig
> make ARCH=i386 arch/x86/
>
> and got..
>
> scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig
> CHK include/linux/version.h
> UPD include/linux/version.h
> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
> UPD include/linux/utsrelease.h
> SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
> HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms
> HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash
> CC scripts/mod/empty.o
> HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
> HOSTCC scripts/bin2c
> MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
> HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
> HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o
> HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o
> HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost
> CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> GEN include/asm-x86/asm-offsets.h
> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> /mnt/raid0/src/linux-2.6/arch/x86/Makefile_32:43: *** Recursive variable `KBUILD_CFLAGS' references itself (eventually). Stop.
> make: *** [arch/x86/] Error 2

Hi Dave.

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?
The only way I can see it heppen is that you have lost
the initial assignmnet in top-level Makefile so
make see this as an '=' assinment and not a ':='
assignment.
The first may not reference itself.

Sam
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