Re: Kbuild + Cross compiling

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:52:56PM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote:
> I must be an idiot, but why does Kbuild rebuild every file when 
> cross-compiling?
> I'm not editing .config or touching any headers, I'm making tweaks to
> a single .c driver,
> and it is taking forever due to continual full-rebuilds.
> 
> building on i386 for ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-uclibc-
> 
> I tried following the logic, but everything is a forced build using
> if_changed and if_changed_dep, and I can't read GNU Make well enough
> to figure out what it thinks is new.  I know make -d says all the
> dependancies are up-to-date, so it's being forced some other way.
kbuild checks for any differences in the commandline alos - so a rebuild
happens if you change options to gcc (think -O2 => -Os).
If you experience that for example mm/slab.c is rebuild then try to
do the following:
cp mm/.slab.o.cmd foo
make mm/
diff -u foo mm/.slab.o.cmd

If diff detects any difference then you know why and need to find out
why there is a difference.

Btw. what make version and what kernel version are you compiling?
There was some inconsistency in kbuild that triggered with make 3.81-rc1
and which will trigger with make 3.82-cvs also.
This issue was only fixed lately - recall it was for 2.6.16

	Sam