On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > It's stuff like this that worries me.. > In the kernel we rely on a lot of things - more than in usual projects. > And one thing we have established in the 2.6 kernel is a trust in the > build system. If you change something kbuild will recompile > everything needed to build a consistent kernel.
Right, it definitely needs to stay optional, because it can only speed up some cases but not others. An example of where pch may help is building rpm/deb packages. > Whatever we do for precompiled headers shall keep the promise > and the trust in kbuild. Right. Arnd <>< ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel