Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:16:57 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: dcache_rcu [performance results] |
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On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 07:41:34PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >Kernel compilation actually uses absolute pathnames e.g. for dependency > >checking. > > This used to be true, but it shouldn't be true any more. TOPDIR should > be gone, and everything should be relative paths (and all "make" > invocations should just be done from the top kernel directory). > > But yes, it certainly _used_ to be true (and hey, maybe I've missed some > reason for why it isn't still true). If there is any dependency left on absolute paths thats a bug.
I have tested this by doing a full make and copy the tree. When executing make again nothing got rebuild - so it is OK for the general case.
But please report it if you see something in contradiction with that.
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