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Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 16:53:36 -0400
From: "Dan Merillat" <harik.attar@gmail.com>
To: "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Kbuild + Cross compiling
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 5/5/06, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/06, Dan Merillat <harik.attar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I must be an idiot, but why does Kbuild rebuild every file when cross-compiling?
> > I'm not editing .config or touching any headers, I'm making tweaks to
> > a single .c driver,
> > and it is taking forever due to continual full-rebuilds.
>
> I had that problem a while ago. Turned out that the version of make I used on
> my debian had a bug.

That was it.  debian make 3.80 was buggy.   Since make was a likely
culprit I upgraded it anyway, then I read this and it confirmed what I
found.

Thanks for the help, everyone.
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