Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:39:27 +1100
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: apgo@patchbomb.org (Arthur Othieno)
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, psmith@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       stable@kernel.org, kernel@kolivas.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make
 behavior
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:15:01 -0500 apgo@patchbomb.org (Arthur Othieno) wrot=
e:
>
> Sam, this was merged into Linus' tree post v2.6.16 (like you intended),
> but, won't the window between now and 2.6.17 be a little too big for such
> a fix? Debian etch (and sid) already ships with the affected make version:
>=20
>   $ make -v | head -1
>   GNU Make 3.81rc1
>=20
> Now, this patch re-based against 2.6.16 is still too big for -stable
> (~830 lines plus context). I'm Cc'ing -stable team here for comments, and
> also because this will continue to bite between -stable releases. Should
> they decide to pick it up, I'll post re-based version as a reply.

You should note this changelog entry from Debian sid:

make-dfsg (3.80+3.81.rc2-1) unstable; urgency=3Dlow

  * New upstream release candidate.
  * Bug fix: "Make always recompiles everything in the Linux Kernel.",
    thanks to Neil Brown. This is really a bug in the kernel build system,
    not make. However, this release defers the change so as not to trigger
    the bug.                                      (Closes: #356552, #356630=
).

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:37:15 -0600

So that the make in sid is no longer affected and (hopefully) this version =
will
make its way into etch soon.

--=20
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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