Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Petr Vandrovec" <> | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:03:38 +0100 | Subject | Re: How build dependencies work/are supposed to work in 2.5 |
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On 10 Jan 03 at 18:35, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:33:32PM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > So I'd like to ask whether current kernel build system is supposed > > to track changes in include files automagically, or whether I'm supposed > > to run 'make dep' from time to time? > > Until now I'm only aware of one set of problems that kbuild does not > handle correct. That is when the timestamp of the files goes backward. > This happens at least in the following situations: > 1) A file is saved, and mv is used to restore the original > 2) CVS is configured to preserve original timestamp when files are 'dumped' > 3) NFS mounted filesystems where the clock is wrong. Timezone > inconsistency for eaxmple. > > I assume you were hit by some flavour of 1) ???
Thanks for your explanation. After I was thinking about it, you are probably right. Maybe that I just copied console_struct.h from distribution kernel instead of reverting patch to get to the original version, and I forgot touching file.
Sorry for confusion. Thanks, Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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