Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] Compile kernel with -fwhole-program --combine | | From | David Woodhouse <> | | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:45:22 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:11 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > That's what I meant. Assume I explicitly built read.o foo.o and bar.o. > If I then run the regular make, it will rerun gcc for read.c foo.c and > bar.c rather than using the already-created .o files for linking.
Yes. Just as if I run 'make fs/ntfs/inode.o' and then build my kernel, my build of fs/ntfs/inode.o isn't used -- because I don't have CONFIG_NTFS set.
You built something manually that wasn't needed, and then it wasn't used. Is there a problem here?
-- dwmw2
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