Hi Lorenzo, On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 11:24:09AM GMT, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 11:13, Lorenzo Stoakes > > <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > 5,447,539 ./arch/x86/xen/setup.o.pre > > > > Can you perhaps do some kind of "max expansion" on all the > > preprocessor files (you seem to have done it by changing the ".c.o" > > rule to just spit it out as "o.pre", which sounds fine). > > Yeah I simply hacked in a gcc -E, ugly but effective, e.g. prepending > cmd_cc_o_c in scripts/Makefile.build with: > > cmd_cc_o_c = $(CC) $(c_flags) -E $< > $@.pre; \ Kbuild already knows how to build a preprocessed file (.i), so making any .o depend on its .i should work, too? Or am I missing something? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds