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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-22 19:16:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-22 19:16:17 -0700
commit527da38d33f16da4c245da3a5a3858193f8a0261 (patch)
tree2ef190632d1f370e573f3f731e8051d7b9538c50 /Documentation
parent5081dba6588a0c228821ede4635441f7758eb757 (diff)
parent631bcfbbc5be0d778a2513988a56e5bd53bfb495 (diff)
Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: kbuild: cc-cross-prefix spelling kbuild: allow depmod in cross builds again kbuild: fix modules_install after a 'make vmlinux'
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 6166e2d7da76..7a7753321a26 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -519,17 +519,17 @@ more details, with real examples.
to the user why it stops.
cc-cross-prefix
- cc-cross-prefix is used to check if there exist a $(CC) in path with
+ cc-cross-prefix is used to check if there exists a $(CC) in path with
one of the listed prefixes. The first prefix where there exist a
prefix$(CC) in the PATH is returned - and if no prefix$(CC) is found
then nothing is returned.
Additional prefixes are separated by a single space in the
call of cc-cross-prefix.
- This functionality is usefull for architecture Makefile that try
- to set CROSS_COMPILE to well know values but may have several
+ This functionality is useful for architecture Makefiles that try
+ to set CROSS_COMPILE to well-known values but may have several
values to select between.
- It is recommended only to try to set CROSS_COMPILE is it is a cross
- build (host arch is different from target arch). And is CROSS_COMPILE
+ It is recommended only to try to set CROSS_COMPILE if it is a cross
+ build (host arch is different from target arch). And if CROSS_COMPILE
is already set then leave it with the old value.
Example: