>>> On 26.07.18 at 23:16, <christopher.w.clark@gmail.com> wrote: I don't understand this (as well as you most recent remark on the
> Exclude named output files from the Xen tree setup.
>
> The linkfarm.stamp content will differ between top level "make"
> and "make install" invocations, due to the introduction of these
> output files that are produced during the "make" build.
>
> Filter these out to prevent an unnecessary rebuild of the shim
> during "make install", after "make" within a fresh source tree.
>
> Excluded from consideration with this change: differences in stamp
> content when performing incremental builds in an existing tree.
v2 thread): The "make install" invocation _is_ an incremental
rebuild. Hence I don't understand how excluding some but not all
generated files helps. But I'm not going to exclude that this is
simply because I don't understand well enough the logic in
xen-dir/Makefile when to trigger a rebuild.