Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:31:39 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:17:53 -0700 (PDT)
> Now, _another_ part (and arguably the really core reason) of this problem > is that our Makefile rules for the asm include directory is weak and > unreliable in the presense of already-existing unexpected entries.
I guess we could use seperate "stamp" files to deal with this.
Along with the generated file "foo" there is a "foo.stamp" file that is generated with "touch" after "foo" is built.
Then "foo"'s update rule is whether the "foo.stamp" is out of date wrt. it's dependencies.
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