For some reason, everything in arch/i386/boot is rebuilt on every
compile. It's not a huge time waster, but it has annoyed people enough
that they ask me about it. version.o and setup.elf obviously would,
since they contain a version string, but none of the other .o files have
any obvious reason
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:49:42AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> For some reason, everything in arch/i386/boot is rebuilt on every
> compile. It's not a huge time waster, but it has annoyed people enough
> that they ask me about it. version.o and setup.elf obviously would,
> since they contain a
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> Seen it to - but were busy with other stuff.
>
> If you do a
> $ make V=2
> Then you will notice that kbuild tells you that the .o files are built because
> they are not listed in $(targets).
>
Thanks. That was the missing bit. Didn't know about V=2, that's quite
handy
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:27:22PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:49:42AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > For some reason, everything in arch/i386/boot is rebuilt on every
> > compile. It's not a huge time waster, but it has annoyed people enough
> > that they ask me abou
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:49:48PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote:
>
> Now, Sam, see how people are trying to escape from the noise of the
> LKML. Yet you are not CC patches and anything here, e.g. .23 updates :(
I prefer to have kbuild stuff in the public aka lkml.
I should reflect this in MAINTAINERS
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:49:48PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote:
>> Now, Sam, see how people are trying to escape from the noise of the
>> LKML. Yet you are not CC patches and anything here, e.g. .23 updates :(
>
> I prefer to have kbuild stuff in the public aka lkml.
> I should
