Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262898AbVAQVmp (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:42:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262902AbVAQVmp (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:42:45 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([209.128.68.125]:55438 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262898AbVAQVlQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:41:16 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, which We do not fancy Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1105998055 24048 127.0.0.1 (17 Jan 2005 21:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:40:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 548 Lines: 14 Okay, this is driving me utterly crazy... How the heck do I get kbuild to *not* think that because I'm using a different C compiler (including "gcc" versus "distcc"), or I'm on a different host, that it has to rebuild every single object file in my directory? This is an unbelievable headache. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/