[PATCH] kbuild: Set NOSTDINC_FLAGS late to speed up compile (a little) Move definition of NOSTDINC_FLAGS below inclusion of arch Makefile, so any arch specific settings to $(CC) takes effect before looking up the compiler include directory. The previous solution that replaced ':=' with '=' caused gcc to be invoked one additional time for each directory visited. This decreases kernel compile time with 0.1 second (3.6 -> 3.5 seconds) when running make on a fully built kernel Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 8da3a30..4899089 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile
@@ -332,9 +332,7 @@ PERL = perl CHECK = sparse -NOSTDINC_FLAGS = -nostdinc -isystem $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=include) CHECKFLAGS := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ -CHECKFLAGS += $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) MODFLAGS = -DMODULE CFLAGS_MODULE = $(MODFLAGS) AFLAGS_MODULE = $(MODFLAGS) @@ -531,6 +529,10 @@ include $(srctree)/arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile +# arch Makefile may override CC so keep this after arch Makefile is included +NOSTDINC_FLAGS := -nostdinc -isystem $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=include) +CHECKFLAGS += $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) + # warn about C99 declaration after statement CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,)