From: Keith Owens arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.o is not listed as a target so its .cmd file is neither considered as a target nor is it read on the next build. This causes vsyscall-note.o to be rebuilt every time that you run make, which causes vmlinux to be rebuilt every time. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/kernel/Makefile | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/Makefile~stop-arch-i386-kernel-vsyscall-noteo-being-rebuilt-every-time arch/i386/kernel/Makefile --- 25/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile~stop-arch-i386-kernel-vsyscall-noteo-being-rebuilt-every-time 2005-06-06 00:14:23.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile 2005-06-06 00:14:23.000000000 -0700 @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SCx200) += scx200.o # Note: kbuild does not track this dependency due to usage of .incbin $(obj)/vsyscall.o: $(obj)/vsyscall-int80.so $(obj)/vsyscall-sysenter.so targets += $(foreach F,int80 sysenter,vsyscall-$F.o vsyscall-$F.so) -targets += vsyscall.lds +targets += vsyscall-note.o vsyscall.lds # The DSO images are built using a special linker script. quiet_cmd_syscall = SYSCALL $@ _