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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt index 923f9ddee8f..f3355b6812d 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Environment variables KCPPFLAGS -------------------------------------------------- Additional options to pass when preprocessing. The preprocessing options -will be used in all cases where kbuild do preprocessing including +will be used in all cases where kbuild does preprocessing including building C files and assembler files. KAFLAGS @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Additional options to the C compiler. KBUILD_VERBOSE -------------------------------------------------- -Set the kbuild verbosity. Can be assinged same values as "V=...". +Set the kbuild verbosity. Can be assigned same values as "V=...". See make help for the full list. Setting "V=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_VERBOSE. @@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ KBUILD_OUTPUT -------------------------------------------------- Specify the output directory when building the kernel. The output directory can also be specificed using "O=...". -Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT +Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT. ARCH -------------------------------------------------- Set ARCH to the architecture to be built. In most cases the name of the architecture is the same as the directory name found in the arch/ directory. -But some architectures suach as x86 and sparc has aliases. +But some architectures such as x86 and sparc have aliases. x86: i386 for 32 bit, x86_64 for 64 bit sparc: sparc for 32 bit, sparc64 for 64 bit @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ CF is often used on the command-line like this: INSTALL_PATH -------------------------------------------------- INSTALL_PATH specifies where to place the updated kernel and system map -images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values +images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values. MODLIB @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ INSTALL_MOD_STRIP will used as the options to the strip command. INSTALL_FW_PATH -------------------------------------------------- -INSTALL_FW_PATH specify where to install the firmware blobs. +INSTALL_FW_PATH specifies where to install the firmware blobs. The default value is: $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored. INSTALL_HDR_PATH -------------------------------------------------- -INSTALL_HDR_PATH specify where to install user space headers when +INSTALL_HDR_PATH specifies where to install user space headers when executing "make headers_*". The default value is: @@ -112,22 +112,23 @@ The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored. KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN -------------------------------------------------- -KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid error out in case of undefined -symbols in the final module linking stage. +KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid errors in case of undefined +symbols in the final module linking stage. It changes such errors +into warnings. -KBUILD_MODPOST_FINAL +KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL -------------------------------------------------- KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL can be set to skip the final link of modules. -This is solely usefull to speed up test compiles. +This is solely useful to speed up test compiles. KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS -------------------------------------------------- -For modules use symbols from another modules. +For modules that use symbols from other modules. See more details in modules.txt. ALLSOURCE_ARCHS -------------------------------------------------- -For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can specify more than one archs -to be included in the databases, separated by blankspace. e.g. +For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can specify more than one arch +to be included in the databases, separated by blank space. E.g.: $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS="x86 mips arm" tags |