Re: kbuild: Build minimum in scripts/ when changing configuration

Sam Ravnborg
2003-09-10T20:13:24Z

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:58:02PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >+scripts/fixdep:
> >+ $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts $@
> >+
>
> Umm, that still doesn't address the "already up to date" make will generate
> when fixdep doesn't need to be rebuilt. (which is why I changed things the
> way I did.)
I am aware of that.
It does not happen in the usual situations where it would have become
visible.
One example is "make oldconfig" where it appears, but there is so much
other output that I avoided to introduce special support to avoid it.

You see the same with asm-offset.h. We could avoid that with a hack
in Makefile.build, but I have resisted to do it, again to avoid special cases.

Sam