Re: [patch] kbuild: building with a mostly-clean /usr/src/linux and O=

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:19:43AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Unfortunately this isn't sufficient, yet. In the architecture-specific
> makefiles asm-offsets.s (or however the specific architectures call
> this) now need their dependencies on include/linux/version.h changed (I
> wonder whether it wouldn't be more efficient to centralize these
> dependencies into an architecture-independent file, perhaps at once
> applying consistent naming across all architectures)

This topic has been on my mind to implment over a long time.
So I took a stamp on it and it hit -linus this night.

Dependencies on arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s is now tracked
like any other dependency - so we now at last have full dependency
checks for asm-offsets.h.
Take a look at the Kbuild file in the top-level directory.

With respect to the patch posted below I recall I had to zap
two $(objtree) to fix alpha build.
Patch by Jan Dittmer - see 946dc121d7d1c606f6bbeb8ae778963a1e2ff59c

But that may have changed now after introducing generic asm-offsets.h
support.

	Sam