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From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Subject: Re: no version magic, tainting kernel. 
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On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:

> For older kernels you must set O_TARGET, for 2.5 I think the mere act of
> setting it causes the build to break -- that one is gratuitously making it
> harder to make external modules which compile in both and I've complained
> about it before.

Okay, I might get persuaded to take that check out if it really makes life 
harder. Wouldn't it work to not have O_TARGET in the Makefile at all, I 
think 2.4 shouldn't care as long as you just "make modules"?

> Per-file CFLAGS must have a full path specified now in 2.5, whereas in 2.4 
> and earlier it was just 'CFLAGS_filename.o'.

It shouldn't, I kinda deliberately decided to keep the old syntax for 
this. So it would be a bug.

--Kai

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