Re: 2.6: spurious recompiles

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 00:37:58 EST


On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 12:44:24AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> x86-64 has the same problem. It always rebuilds arch/x86_64/ia32/vsyscall32.so,
> no matter if it has changed or not. I have not figured out why it does that.
>
> vsyscall.S is an assembly file which depends on asm/offset.h, which
> is regenerated each build. But the regeneration is written in a way to
> not trigger rebuilds when nothing has changed. That works for everything
> else, just apparently not for the vsyscall.S file.

Hi Andi, I recall I have a mail from you about this.
Last time I looked I could not figure out what was wrong, but let
me try again.
Could you send me the output of "make V=1" for an otherwise clean compile.

Sam
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