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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out ccache/distcc
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:29:35PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> 06.01.09 16:15 >>>
> >In the short term, though, it would be nice if we could get back a
> >simple way of making a kernel  object file using just cc, so that ccache
> >and distcc could be functional again.   Does that seem reasonable?
> 
> Making the new logic dependent on a config option would seem reasonable
> to me - of course at the expense of the respective Makefile becoming
> even less readable.

Too late.  :-) It's pretty unreadable already.... as a result, I'm not
at all confident that I could make such a patch.  Is this something
you could perhaps whip up?  I'd really appreicate it, as it would
seriously speed up by kernel development efforts.

Regards,

					- Ted
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