On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:28:12AM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a specific reason why we're using > > unset KPATCH_GCC_TEMPDIR > CROSS_COMPILE="$TOOLSDIR/kpatch-gcc " make ... > > to build the original kernel? This doesn't seem to do anything special > unless I'm missing something.
Good question. If I remember right, it's for compile speed. Otherwise, when building the patched kernel, make will notice the compiler binary changed and it will rebuild everything. It would be good to have a comment there. Pull requests welcome ;-) -- Josh _______________________________________________ kpatch mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kpatch
