Re: make -f debian/rules build - does not correctly rebuild files- why?

2016-11-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2016-11-26 at 17:26 +1100, Andrew Worsley wrote: > I found that rebuilding the kernel package does NOT rebuild  the .o > files which I found very surprising. [...] You should not expect this to work in a Debian package, in general. Many source packages create stamp files to record what

make -f debian/rules build - does not correctly rebuild files- why?

2016-11-25 Thread Andrew Worsley
I found that rebuilding the kernel package does NOT rebuild the .o files which I found very surprising. In fact after much painful experimenting I was forced do a clean to get my modified .c files to be compiled! Basically I was trying to build a new kernel in order to debug bug844788