Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:32:54 -0500 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: .version keeps being updated |
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On Tuesday 09 January 2007 04:20, Jean Delvare wrote: >Hi all, > >Since 2.6.20-rc1 or so, running "make" always builds a new kernel with >an incremented version number, whether there has actually been any >change done to the code or configuration or not. This increases the >build time quite a bit. > >I've tracked it down to include/linux/compile.h always being updated, >and this is because .version is updated. I couldn't find what is >causing .version to be updated each time though. Can anybody help >there? Was this change made on purpose or is this a bug which we should >fix? > >Thanks,
I've not seen that here, Jean. But then my 'makeit' script doesn't use a plain 'make' anyplace, always 'make bzimage' or 'make modules' & 'make modules install', etc.
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