Re: Better way to force a rebuild

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:48:35PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Looking a bit deeper into this.
> I see that we have in Makefile.build:
> 
> define rule_cc_o_c
>         $(call echo-cmd,checksrc) $(cmd_checksrc)                         \
>         $(call echo-cmd,cc_o_c) $(cmd_cc_o_c);                            \
>         $(cmd_modversions)                                                \
>         $(cmd_record_mcount)   
> 
> So you want everyting to be rebuild if the command above changes.
> That should be doable - and it is indeed a bug that we do not do so.
> The integration of record_mcount needs to be improved.

Yes, that is exactly what I want. Now the next step is to implement this. 
I'm not that strong on the kbuild system to know how.

Thanks,

-- Steve

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