Re: 2.6: xfs is rebuilt on every .config change

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 12:26:46PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
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> This happened for a long time, actually in late 2.5.x (that I have started 
> with). Every time I make some changes to config - or simply do make oldconfig 
> - - xfs is rebuilt. This happens when there are *no* changes related to xfs 
> alltogether. E.g. I now applied 2.6.15.1 patch and xfs got rebuilt again.

The xfs source files do:
#include <version.h>
To gain access to actual kernel release.

So each time you do a change to the tree that causes version.h to be
updated the xfs source files will be recompiled.

Note that version.h includes "UTS_NAME" - unfortunately.
So you will see version.h being updated rather often if you have enabled
the "Automatically append version information to the version string" in
the "General Setup" menu.

	Sam
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