On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:22 AM, H. Peter Anvin [off-list ref] wrote:

It is worth noting that one of the things that keep getting brought up
as something that need this is gcc/binutils support for a specific feature.

Yeah, then those tests would be run only once, at kconfig time. I guess we
still run some of them many times, due to the use of recursive make?

Note that these will end up in your .config --- which is not necesarily a bad
thing --- but it does mean that if e.g. you sent me your .config,
several options
may change when I try to use it.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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