Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:55:58 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.12 oddity... |
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Hi Michael.
>> Note that this doesn't cause any problems of itself, which is >> why I've labelled it an oddity rather than a bug. It's just me >> in cat-killer mode, suffering from too much curiosity...
> Ok I see it in 2.3.16 as well, net/econet/econet.c gets compiled > every time.
> It's because the filename matches net/%/%.c and that winds up > depending on 'dummy'. In other words, Rules.make is reserving > certain names and patterns and net/econet/econet.c happens to > step on one.
Based on that, I've just had a look, and net/econet/ only contains the Makefile and econet.c so a fairly simple fix would be to move econet.c up to the net directory and merge the makefiles, killing the econet/ subdirectory in the process...
> Extra compilation doesn't bug me; *missing* compilation bugs me; > so I am going to leave it here.
Nodz...
> You can do this to get a trace log:
> (make -d vmlinux subdirs=NET 2>&1) | less
Many thanks...
Best wishes from Riley.
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