On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 03:17:26AM +0200, Michael Vasiliev wrote:

> Now that's evil to break it like that. Am I right to summarize it to specific 
> incompatibility of version 3.81rc1 and kbuild script and that it is the 
> script that is about to be changed, not the make?

Let's put it this way: make has changed its behaviour from an
unspecified one to an unspecified but arguably more correct
one. Kbuild was relying on the old behaviour and will be fixed to work
with the new one.

> I am concerned about the 
> possibility to eventually pulling a brand new make into the system while 
> still having an old kernel source tree. Looks like Debian SID users have 
> already stepped on that rake.

.. and the universe blow up? not quite, you just suffer a few full
recompilations. I'm sure someone will come up with the appropriate fix
for every kernel version.

Cheers,
Muli
-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/


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