Without the change GNU `make-4.4` falls into infinite recursion of trying
to generate %.output files (bison is not passed flags to generate debug
output).
This happens on GNU `make-4.4` only after GNU make change to more eagerly
rebuild all target outputs in multiple targets:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?63098
The recursion here is the following:
- Makefile depends on *.d files
- *.d files depend on *.c files
- *.c files are generated by bison
- bison is triggered whenever some of it's multiple targets are missing
In our case `%.output` is always missing and bison is always reran.
*.d files are always regenerated on `make` run. And make is always
restarted as *.d files are always regenerated.
The fix removes infeasible `%.output`.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e7a0dcb..d4e7551 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ clean: libfdt_clean pylibfdt_clean tests_clean
@$(VECHO) LEX $@
$(LEX) -o$@ $<
-%.tab.c %.tab.h %.output: %.y
+%.tab.c %.tab.h: %.y
@$(VECHO) BISON $@
$(BISON) -b $(basename $(basename $@)) -d $<
--
2.37.2
