As Dmitry described in [1] changelog the current way of detecting -s option is broken for new make. Changing the tools/build -s option detection the same way as it was fixed for root Makefile in [1]. [1] 4bf73588165b ("kbuild: Port silent mode detection to future gnu make.") Cc: Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/scripts/Makefile.include | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include index ff527ac065cf..6fba29f3222d 100644 --- a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include +++ b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include @@ -136,7 +136,15 @@ else NO_SUBDIR = : endif -ifneq ($(findstring s,$(filter-out --%,$(MAKEFLAGS))),) +# If the user is running make -s (silent mode), suppress echoing of commands +# make-4.0 (and later) keep single letter options in the 1st word of MAKEFLAGS. +ifeq ($(filter 3.%,$(MAKE_VERSION)),) +short-opts := $(firstword -$(MAKEFLAGS)) +else +short-opts := $(filter-out --%,$(MAKEFLAGS)) +endif + +ifneq ($(findstring s,$(short-opts)),) silent=1 endif -- 2.41.0