> "make defconfig" in my box calls gcc 50 times. > This looks much closer to the actual usage of cc-option in the > above mentioned files. > How did you manage to achieve 144 calls to gcc? > > Any specific configuration that triggers this? Hmm, thanks for double checking. I suspect I misgrepped (included the children of the gcc from the strace log). If it calls two children that would be roughly your number. But even 50 is quite bad. -Andi -- 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