On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:27:38AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> You should always specify an arch.
make prep uses noarch and generally works fine. You can just ignore the
strange assembler messages in the 'make configs' phase and the .config
files come out fine, in my experience.
The strange messages are just annoying Makefile detritus because of
running ARCH=ia64, they're nothing to be concerned with, and not
relevant to anything but actually building the kernel on ia64.
(See also arch/ia64/Makefile $GAS_STATUS and $KBUILD_CPPFLAGS)
cheers, Kyle