We have various behavior that's shared across our Makefiles, or that really should be (e.g. via defined templates). Let's create a top-level "shared.mak" to house those sorts of things, and start by adding the ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" flag to it. See my own 7b76d6bf221 (Makefile: add and use the ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" flag, 2021-06-29) and db10fc6c09f (doc: simplify Makefile using .DELETE_ON_ERROR, 2021-05-21) for the addition and use of the ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" flag. This does have the potential downside that if e.g. templates/Makefile would like to include this "shared.mak" in the future the semantics of such a Makefile will change, but as noted in the above commits (and GNU make's own documentation) any such change would be for the better, so it's safe to do this. This also doesn't introduce a bug by e.g. having this ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" flag only apply to this new shared.mak, Makefiles have no such scoping semantics. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/Makefile | 6 +++--- Makefile | 13 +++---------- shared.mak | 9 +++++++++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) create mode 100644 shared.mak diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index ed656db2ae9..ba27456c86a 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +# Import tree-wide shared Makefile behavior and libraries +include ../shared.mak + # Guard against environment variables MAN1_TXT = MAN5_TXT = @@ -524,7 +527,4 @@ doc-l10n install-l10n:: $(MAKE) -C po $@ endif -# Delete the target file on error -.DELETE_ON_ERROR: - .PHONY: FORCE diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 8205614c6ec..5ae7d012cfb 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +# Import tree-wide shared Makefile behavior and libraries +include shared.mak + # The default target of this Makefile is... all:: @@ -2158,16 +2161,6 @@ shell_compatibility_test: please_set_SHELL_PATH_to_a_more_modern_shell strip: $(PROGRAMS) git$X $(STRIP) $(STRIP_OPTS) $^ -### Flags affecting all rules - -# A GNU make extension since gmake 3.72 (released in late 1994) to -# remove the target of rules if commands in those rules fail. The -# default is to only do that if make itself receives a signal. Affects -# all targets, see: -# -# info make --index-search=.DELETE_ON_ERROR -.DELETE_ON_ERROR: - ### Target-specific flags and dependencies # The generic compilation pattern rule and automatically diff --git a/shared.mak b/shared.mak new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0170bb397ae --- /dev/null +++ b/shared.mak @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +### Flags affecting all rules + +# A GNU make extension since gmake 3.72 (released in late 1994) to +# remove the target of rules if commands in those rules fail. The +# default is to only do that if make itself receives a signal. Affects +# all targets, see: +# +# info make --index-search=.DELETE_ON_ERROR +.DELETE_ON_ERROR: -- 2.34.0.rc2.795.g926201d1cc8
