Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: support of older compilers | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:08:28 -0500 |
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On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:36:26 GMT, Ian Hastie said:
> How often is it necessary to do a full rebuild of the kernel? If the > dependencies in the make system work properly then only the amended parts > should be recompiled. That'd be a much bigger time saving than just using an > older compiler.
Touch the wrong .h file, and 95% of the world still gets rebuilt. Similarly, change the wrong CONFIG_ variable and thus the size/layout of a critical structure, and watch 95% of the world still get rebuilt.
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