On 13 February 2017 at 00:10, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 2017-02-12 22:11 +0100, Juraj wrote: > >> I noticed that the deb-pkg target in scripts/package/Makefile invokes >> make clean. Is this really necessary? > > Yes, because (since Linux 4.3) "make deb-pkg" also generates a source > tarball, and you don't want spurious object files in that tarball. > >> I disabled it so I could rebuild >> .deb packages faster after making small changes to the kernel source. > > There's the bindeb-pkg target for that already. :-) I've submitted a even faster target specifically to improve turnaround times: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9532279/ I don't know if it's going to be accepted for 4.11 or not. Riku -- 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
