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From: Randy Dunlap on 22 Apr 2010 12:20
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:07:23 +0200 Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:

>
> HI !
>
> doing a series of static code analysis on 2.6.34-rcX each of them with
> defconfig (x86 32bit) - the strangeness is that even though the config
> file is the same for rc3...5 the number of files actually compiled
> is very different. (linux-2.6 git tree)
>
> 2.6.34-rc5 1695
> 2.6.34-rc4 3404
> 2.6.34-rc3 5109
>
> I diffed the .configs - rc4/rc5 only shows
>
> 3,4c3,4
> < # Linux kernel version: 2.6.34-rc4
> < # Thu Apr 22 11:37:43 2010
> ---
> > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.34-rc5
> > # Thu Apr 22 10:44:02 2010
>
> why then this large difference in files being compiled ?
>
> any hint apprecieated.

Just diff the build logs to see what is happening.

Or use 'make V=2' so that make will tell you why it's building each piece.

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~Randy
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