Re: [PATCH] kbuild: work around distcc/icecc madness

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 20:41:34 EST


On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 01:56:46AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:57:38PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > Changing from distcc to gcc will start a full rebuild on linus tree as
> > > > well.
> > >
> > > I just tried:
> > >
> > > root@twins:/mnt/build/linux-2.6# /mnt/md0/cross/bin/x86_64-linux-gcc --version
> > > x86_64-linux-gcc (GCC) 4.3.1 20080510 (prerelease)
> > > Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
> > > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> > >
> > > root@twins:/mnt/build/linux-2.6# gcc --version
> > > gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu12) 4.3.2
> > > Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
> > > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> > >
> > > The build with the distcc x86_64-linux-gcc compiler and the install
> > > using the host compiler works just fine on Linus' tree.
> >
> > Hmm, I went through all the Makefile changes and we do not touch those
> > bits at all.
> >
> > Can you check whether builddir/scripts/mod/.empty.o.cmd has
> > -DCONFIG_AS_CFI in the command line ?
> >
> > Can you check that file after you built -tip (w/o my patch) and after
> > your make install started to rebuild the tree ?
>
> Perhaps 'make V=2 install' can also help figuring out why the targets
> are rebuilt?

Sheesh, please ignore.
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