Re: [patch] 2.4.11-pre4 remove spurious kernel recompiles

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 13:05:22 EST


On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 08:25:42PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> in the top level Makefile forces a recompile of the entire kernel, for
> no good reason.

this is a matter of taste but personally I believe that at least
theorically recompiling the whole kernel if I add -g to CFLAGS, or if I
change the EXTRAVERSION have lots of sense. OTOH at the moment I
wouldn't trust the buildsystem anyways, so I'd run a `make distclean`
anyways in those cases :).

Andrea
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