On 3/6/06, Giacomo A. Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >> sr> Suggestion: > >> sr> We are now warned about an incompatibility in kbuild and we will > >> sr> fix this asap. But that you postpone this particular behaviour > >> sr> change until next make release. Maybe you add in this change as > >> sr> the first thing after the stable relase so all bleeding edge make > >> sr> users see it and can report issues. > >> > >> I am willing to postpone this change. However, I can't say how much of > >> a window this delay will give you: I can say that it's extremely > >> unlikely that it will be another 3 years before GNU make 3.82 comes out. > > > > One year would be good. The fixed kernel build will be available in an > > official kernel in maybe two or three months form now. With current pace > > we will have maybe 3 more kernel relase until this hits us. And only on > > bleeding edge machines. > > I don't think is a big issue. The short-cut "compile only the necessary > files" is used mainly by developers. > Anyway the kernel will remain correct. Maybe for old kernel it take more > time to build the kernel, but correct. > > BTW Debian building tools (IIRC) clean the sources before every kernel > building process, and in 2.4 (and previous) it was high recommended to > clean and recompile all kernel before any changes, so no big issue in > these cases. > I don't know other "normal use", but I think it is not a big issue if > people will need a complete build in the rare (IMHO) case that they > want to recompile kernel (with small patches or changes in configuration). >
Rebuilding the kernel tens (or hundreds) of times may be rare for most ordinary users, but it's quite common for kernel developers. Rebuilding the entire kernel every time you make a small change is a big problem and cost a lot of people a lot of time - and the people who will bear the cost are the ones who have to build many kernels. IMHO this is a big problem. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
