On Sat, 1 Apr 1995 09:41:19 -0500 (EST) 
 Kip Walker <kwalker+@CMU.EDU> wrote:

 > Why does a make of the kernel ALWAYS rebuild everything?  can I make
 > it not do that?  It would be MUCH cooler if just what I changed got
 > recompiled.  

However, if you've changed header file, anything that includes it (either 
directly or indirectly) *should* be recompiled.  Many things also depend 
on the Makefile, since it passes many preprocessor directives.

'Course, by it's very nature, recompiling a kernel always compiles at 
least N+1 files, where N is the number of files modified; vers.c is 
always updated.

It may seem like gross overkill, and quite annoying on a slow machine 
(like my Sun 3/50, for example), but it's definitely more `correct'.

Ciao.

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