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Subject: Re: PATCH: compile the kernel with -Werror
From: Kenneth Johansson <ken@kenjo.org>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@actcom.co.il>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
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On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 09:26, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> A full kernel compilation, especially when using the -j switch to
> make, can cause warnings to "fly off the screen" without the user
> noticing them. For example, wli's patch lazy_buddy.2.5.25-1 of today
> had a missing return statement in a function returning non void, which
> the compiler probably complained about but the warning got lost in the
> noise (a little birdie told me wli used -j64). 

use 

make -j64 KBUILD_VERBOSE=0

This is similar to what kbuils2.5 dose by default but since the in
kernel version do not have one single makefile the output gets a bit
reshuffled.

But -j64 dose seem a but hi I usually use the same as numbers of cpu.
over nfs I go a little higher.



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