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On December 29, 2001 09:13 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > Legacy Fishtank wrote:> > > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:44:10PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > > > What Mr. Fishtank seems to overlook is that kbuild 2.5 is far more > > > flexible and accurate than 2.4, including features that lots of people > > > want, like separate source and object trees.> > > > I don't see the masses, or, well, anybody on lkml, clamoring for this.> > Clamour. Clamour. Broke my tree yesterday, rm -rf was the fastest/easiest way out. Immediately after make -j2 bzImage, make bzImage seems to rebuild about half the tree. Many incidents of time-wasting breakage over the last couple of years for me. > Keith says it speeds up builds where only a small number of files > have changed. For me, that's the common case. Ooh, yes! > I'd like to hear more from Keith on where this 100% actually occurs, > but if he says it's fixable in a (give him four) week timeframe, > I believe him. He said something about reloading dependencies on each compile. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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