Re: Kbuild + Cross compiling

[Ben Dooks]

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.

I do not see the problem building ARM kernels using i386
so this is possibly specific to the setup, or something
you are doing, like changing compiler or compiler options.

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