Re: 2.6: spurious recompiles

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 05:18:55 EST


On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:00:25AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:51:44AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:14:18PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 2. pnmtologo
> > > The following happens again once, but not when doing a third "make":
> > > ./scripts/pnmtologo -t mono -n logo_linux_mono -o drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_mono.c drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_mono.pbm
> >
> > Would you mind to give this patch a spin. Only lightly tested here.
> Tested it a bit more, it was not good. Corrected patch follows.
> I had to spell out the dependencies, otherwise make saw them
> as implicit targets, and deleted the .c files afterwards.

Thanks, this patch seems to fix it.

> Btw the patch contains some general clean-up as well, unrelated to
> the 'spurious recompile' issue.

These are the places where I got rejects in 2.6.0-test4-mm6 (these
changes are already in the -mm tree).

> Sam
>...

cu
Adrian

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