Re: modules and amke in 2.0.31pre9

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:17:04 -0400


From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:09:00 +0100 (BST)

Yes. Serial.c changes serial.ver changes modules.ver changes all the files
below

It might be useful to have the Makefiles notice whether or not the
contents of the serial.ver file actually changed, and if it didn't
change, don't update the timestamp on the file. It'd probably save a
lot of needless compilations, since often the calling API itself hasn't
changed.

- Ted