[hobbit] bbdisplay core dump

[Jones, Jason (Altrincham)]

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:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: 26 October 2006 11:30
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
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


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