From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 06:10:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 06:10:03 -0400 Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.6]:8209 "EHLO hirsch.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 06:10:02 -0400 X-Envelope-From: news@bytesex.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Gerd Knorr Newsgroups: lists.linux.kernel Subject: Re: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel Date: 3 May 2002 10:06:04 GMT Organization: SuSE Labs, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Au=DFenstelle?= Berlin Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7691.1020402149@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Trace: bytesex.org 1020420364 17790 127.0.0.1 (3 May 2002 10:06:04 GMT) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Do it with NO_MAKEFILE_GEN=1 for much, much! faster builds. What exactly is the reason for this hack, i.e. why kbuild wants to rebuild the Makefiles every time? Isn't it enougth to do that only if .config has been touched? Gerd -- You can't please everybody. And usually if you _try_ to please everybody, the end result is one big mess. -- Linus Torvalds, 2002-04-20