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From: | Giacomo A. Catenazzi |
Subject: | Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: kbuild: Problem with latest GNU make rc |
Date: | Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:17:22 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) |
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
sr> Suggestion: sr> We are now warned about an incompatibility in kbuild and we will sr> fix this asap. But that you postpone this particular behaviour sr> change until next make release. Maybe you add in this change as sr> the first thing after the stable relase so all bleeding edge make sr> users see it and can report issues. I am willing to postpone this change. However, I can't say how much of a window this delay will give you: I can say that it's extremely unlikely that it will be another 3 years before GNU make 3.82 comes out.One year would be good. The fixed kernel build will be available in an official kernel in maybe two or three months form now. With current pace we will have maybe 3 more kernel relase until this hits us. And only on bleeding edge machines.
I don't think is a big issue. The short-cut "compile only the necessary files" is used mainly by developers. Anyway the kernel will remain correct. Maybe for old kernel it take more time to build the kernel, but correct. BTW Debian building tools (IIRC) clean the sources before every kernel building process, and in 2.4 (and previous) it was high recommended to clean and recompile all kernel before any changes, so no big issue in these cases. I don't know other "normal use", but I think it is not a big issue if people will need a complete build in the rare (IMHO) case that they want to recompile kernel (with small patches or changes in configuration). ciao cate
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