Mike Frisch wrote:
> > I've just noticed that yet again make seems to be building a lot of
> > files for apparantly no reason.
>
> I noticed a similar problem when patching a previously compiled 2.2.16
> source tree with the latest NFSv3 patches. The updated RPC files caused
> various unrelated files to be rebuilt (ie. ../fs/proc/scsi.c).
I played around a bit (hint: "make -d|grep newer" is very helpful) and
found:
- include/linux/version.h depends on the root Makefile
- include/linux/module.h depends on include/linux/version.h
- just about everything depends on include/linux/module.h
This may not be what's causing the seemingly needless recompiles in both
your cases, but in any case you could try touching the root Makefile
with an old date after patching. It would be rather a gamble though,
unless you Know What You Are Doing.
Mick.
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