RFC: $(ARCH) in file

[Horst von Brand]

Riley Williams <rhw en MemAlpha.CX> said:
> Whilst I'd agree with you over that, how about something like the
> following patch:

I you do something like that, better make it a configuration
option. Configuration depends a lot on the architecture.

[....]

> That then allows one to do...
> 
>  Q> make arch makefile
>  Q> make arch dep clean modules modules_install bzImage
> 
> ...and one actually gets asked which architecture one requires.
> However, if one omits the "arch" from those lines, it just uses the
> native architecture.

Won't work. My Sun won't get its ethernet interface, my PC will end up with
support for Sun partition tables. And who knows what my Alpha will do...
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