the rationale for forcing is described at the end of RT 4767. "This makes 'make' actually rebuild things if files change. It could be more efficient at doing so (the perl script should not replace symlinks that are untouched), but at least it will do it now."
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Simon Wilkinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 25 Sep 2010, at 05:32, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Why are we forcing this? Just because no one's come up with the correct >> dependencies to know when to rebuild the kernel module properly? > > That code comes from d5dfb911, which was contributed by Jeff Hutzelman, so it > may be worth asking him. > > Cheers, > > Simon. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel > -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
