Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: let object files depend on recordmcount instead of its sources | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:00:25 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 21:47 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> I could reproduce the build failure Steve is seeing now (enabling > CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER helps, stupid me). I think the problem is that > with my change empty.o depends on recordmcount and in a way that I don't > understand recordmcount depends on empty.o. I wonder if it's possible to > get rid of the latter dependency?!
It may be possible but probably not worth it. When I stumbled on empty.o I talked with some of the kbuild folks, and IIRC, it is pretty core to the dependency structure. Changing it may break other things easily.
-- Steve
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