Re: [PATCH] kbuild: let object files depend on recordmcount insteadof its sources

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 21:47 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> I could reproduce the build failure Steve is seeing now (enabling
> CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER helps, stupid me). I think the problem is that
> with my change empty.o depends on recordmcount and in a way that I don't
> understand recordmcount depends on empty.o. I wonder if it's possible to
> get rid of the latter dependency?!

It may be possible but probably not worth it. When I stumbled on empty.o
I talked with some of the kbuild folks, and IIRC, it is pretty core to
the dependency structure. Changing it may break other things easily.

-- Steve


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