Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:50:56 +0000 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out ccache/distcc |
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>>> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> 06.01.09 18:33 >>> >On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:29:35PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> 06.01.09 16:15 >>> >> >In the short term, though, it would be nice if we could get back a >> >simple way of making a kernel object file using just cc, so that ccache >> >and distcc could be functional again. Does that seem reasonable? >> >> Making the new logic dependent on a config option would seem reasonable >> to me - of course at the expense of the respective Makefile becoming >> even less readable. > >Too late. :-) It's pretty unreadable already.... as a result, I'm not >at all confident that I could make such a patch. Is this something >you could perhaps whip up? I'd really appreicate it, as it would >seriously speed up by kernel development efforts.
Yes, I think I could (and in fact I already put it on my to-do list), but I can't give a good prediction on when I'd be able to get to it.
Jan
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