On 2015-12-01 17:19, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 05:07:05PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote: >> So, both recordmcount and the new recordudiv program are idempotent. >> They check if the to-be-added section is already present and do nothing. > > They hardly "do nothing", as the (eg) recordmcount plasters the build > log with warnings. A solution to that would be to make recordmcount > silent if the section is already present. Right, there is a warning. The recorduidiv program exits silently. >> So the result is correct even with CCACHE_HARDLINK, just the >> intermediate file might be incorrect. If this still is considered an >> issue, I suggest clearing CCACHE_HARDLINK when using any of these >> postprocessors, so as not to penalize other use cases. > > Another solution would be to have the top level make file unset the > CCACHE_HARDLINK environment variable if any of the options which enable > in-place editing of object files is enabled. This is what I meant, sorry for not being clear. > Looking at the ccache > code, the environment variable has to be deleted from the environment > to turn off the option - and I'm not sure whether make can delete > environment variables. It certainly can override them, but I see > nothing in the info pages which suggests that environment variables > can be deleted by a makefile. unexport CCACHE_HARDLINK will do the trick. Michal -- 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