Re: State of the new config & build system

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2001 - 17:17:24 EST


On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Legacy Fishtank wrote:
>
> I think one thing to note is that dependencies is that if you are smart
> about it, dependencies -really- do not even change when your .config
> changes.

Absolutely. I detest "gcc -MD", exactly because it doesn't get this part
right. "mkdep.c" gets this _right_.

                Linus

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