Re: [bug #33034] "Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop." for Linux kernel out of source builds

2011-11-10 Thread tz
On Nov 10, 2011 2:32 PM, "Paul Smith" wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 10:36 -0500, tz wrote: > > I doubt the entire tree in the FSF repository can be properly > > cross-compiled. Debian has taken to arrays of the various processors > > so they can go native. &

Re: [bug #33034] "Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop." for Linux kernel out of source builds

2011-11-10 Thread tz
I doubt there is much reason to expect public support. Remember the response to my request: "I really am not interested in changing all the error messages to give details about which version of GNU make that error was introduced, and I'm also not interested in adding flags to every version of GNU

[bug #33034] "Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop." for Linux kernel out of source builds

2011-05-20 Thread tz
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #33034 (project make): It would help if for the next version there was a backward compatibility switch - there are a lot of archived kernel source trees (and probably a lot of other projects) that this breaks. It would also help if the error message noted it was a change