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- From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Subject: Re: Patch to 0.97PL2 to reduce unnecessary compiles during a build
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.172053.18527@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:20:53 GMT
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- From: bob@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Bob Green)
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 07:31:18 GMT
-
- wouldn't it be simpler to make use of the various targets defined in the
- Makefile ? I use
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- make Image
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- to do what you want, ie. just recompile the bits that have actually changed,
- and
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- make
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- to increment the version and rebuild everything. Works OK for me.
-
- Yes, but I want the version number to increment each time I relink the
- kernel, so I can distinguish between different versions of the kernel.
- With my patches, the version number can get bumped each time, _and_ you
- avoid unnecessarily recompiling files that don't need to be recompiled.
- Those patches also include information about who built the kernel and on
- which machine, which is useful if you're trying to figure out the
- geneology of a particular kernel.
-
- - Ted
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