On Tuesday 09 January 2007 04:20, Jean Delvare wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Since 2.6.20-rc1 or so, running "make" always builds a new kernel with
>an incremented version number, whether there has actually been any
>change done to the code or configuration or not. This increases the
>build time quite a bit.
>
>I've tracked it down to include/linux/compile.h always being updated,
>and this is because .version is updated. I couldn't find what is
>causing .version to be updated each time though. Can anybody help
>there? Was this change made on purpose or is this a bug which we should
>fix?
>
>Thanks,
I've not seen that here, Jean. But then my 'makeit' script doesn't use a
plain 'make' anyplace, always 'make bzimage' or 'make modules' & 'make
modules install', etc.
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