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

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 16:27:46 EST


On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:10:21AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:16:19PM +0100, 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.

Sam
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