On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:25:36PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > After update to 2.6.32-rc1, I'm getting > > > > > > "Makefile:197: *** CROSS_COMPILE changed from "ccache" to to "ccache ". Use "make mrproper" to fix it up. Stop. > > > > > > Note that the message has typo in it ("to to")... What is worse, the > > > message triggers even when I try to run make mrproper. Ouch. > > > > The massage is changed in kbuild-fixes.git - but it addresses only ARCH= > > > > As a followup to your other mails: > > The reason to use "make mrproper" is that when ARCH or CROSS_COMPILE changes > > you have generally either decided to build for a new architecture or > > you have changed the way you build the kernel (new toolchain or whatever). > > So to clean up using "make mrproper" is perfectly justified. > > > > The target group that uses CROSS_COMPILE to enable ccache are using > > CROSS_COMPILE is a way it is not designed for so they should expect that it > > is not a perfect match. > > What is the recommended way to run ccache, then? ccache is a frontend to gcc - so I would have expected you would use: make CC="ccache gcc" Or does ccache also benefit ld and as and the other that receive the $(CROSS_COMPILE) prefix? Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html