linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Compile kernel with -fwhole-program --combine

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Message-Id: <1156500071.2984.55.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:01:11 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Compile kernel with -fwhole-program --combine

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:51 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Although I cannot give you any logical reasons, there are possibly reasons 
> why building some things manually might help. Oh well, I think in that case 
> I just pass a make option CONFIG_NOCOMBINE, as you said. 

Of course. Sometimes when I'm debugging I make stuff manually with
EXTRA_CFLAGS='-O1 -g', and sometimes I'll probably want do the build
with CONFIG_COMBINED_COMPILE= as well.

That should certainly be possible -- and it _is_ possible with my
makefile hack but mostly by chance. It's a feature which we should
probably try to keep though.

-- 
dwmw2

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