Sounds like a reasonable conclusion to me, from what I remember from my
architecture course C compilers do not repeat the linking stage unless
forced to as a way to lower compilation times, may I suggest though that
you add the need for make clean to the patches section of the website so
people don't run into this issue :)
Jason.
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 26 October 2006 11:30
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] bbdisplay core dump
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:11:47AM +0100, Jones, Jason (Altrincham)
wrote:
Still a really odd issue though, personally I don't really know what
"make clean" does in terms of compilation etc. but maybe there is a
conflict somewhere that this resolves?
"make clean" deletes all of the files that are generated when running
"make", so it forces a full re-compile of all of the source files.
I *think* this issue might be related to a change in the parameters used
for one of the internal Hobbit functions. If "make" doesn't get the
dependencies right it may not re-compile all of the source-files that
this change affected, so you will end up with some calls to the function
using one set of parameters, and other calls to the function using a
different set of parameters. Needless to say, this can cause all sorts
of weird problems.
Regards,
Henrik