Re: possible build system oddity

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Fri Aug 31 2007 - 11:05:18 EST


On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:42:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk said:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:37:28AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I only touched sound/usb/usbaudio.c
> > Nevertheless the whole subtree und sound/ is recompiling. What's
> > happening?
>
> The only file that gets compiled (CC) should be sound/usb/usbaudio.c
>
> It seems you are confused by the fact that this recompilation results in
> several relinks (LD)?

Or something else changed that he didn't realize. Just the other day, I
applied a one-line patch that hit one .c file, and *the entire kernel*
started rebuilding.

Took me a while to figure out that I'd been looking for something else, and
done a 'vi Makefile' in the top level, and exited with 'ZZ' rather than ':q' ;)

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