Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:31:06 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Do not rebuild full kernel tree again and again... |
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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:47:08PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>I'm seeing this behaviour too in -rc6 and it is a bad regression > >>>>for a developer. I assume there will be some workaround? >>> >>>I assume debian soon will update make to current version from CVS that >>>has this behaviour removed. >>> >> >>So long as it just requires a tools update then that's fine for me. > > I should note here that it was agreed with Paul that upcoming make > relase will not have this change, but next release will have it. > So 2.6.17 kbuild will take care of being forward compatible in this > matter. >
Wouldn't it be better to have an option to tell make to assume the old behavior? I only skimmed the original thread but it didn't seem terribly complex thing to do. A LOT of people will be doing things on pre-2.6.17 kernel for quite some time and they will be cursing a lot if they have to rebuild everything everytime.
Thanks.
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