Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
It was several years ago when I first needed this chunk; right now I do not remember which exact scenario triggered the problem. I can't break anything now even when this patch is NOT applied. Consider this particular chunk withdrawn for the time being.
Oh good. Whenever I touch FIRST_MAKEFILE something always breaks. I might adopt some of your cleanup to the code though. The $new $old bits.
I remove this chunk on my machine, and will try to be extra observant to detect what breaks with module-build-on-large-scale.
Ok, let me know.
