On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:46 AM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 04:36:53PM -0700, Jim Davis wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > gzip would run as 'gzip -f' when no uncompressed man pages were found,
>>> > making it compress the (empty) stdin to stdout.
>>>
>>> > --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
>>> > +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
>>> > @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ htmldocs: $(HTML)
>>> >
>>> > MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS))
>>> > mandocs: $(MAN)
>>> > - find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -f
>>> > + find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' -exec gzip -f {} \;
>>> >
>>> > installmandocs: mandocs
>>> > mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/
>>>
>>> That does get rid of the binary burp, but 'xargs gzip -f' has been in
>>> the Makefile since January, and gzipping '\n' just started recently.
>>> So what's changed?
>>>
>>
>> No idea. I just assumed it had been broken since then, since the version
>> before d56fcf299fb4 (DocBook: Do not exceed argument list limit) looked
>> for *.9 files before running gzip:
>>
>> mandocs: $(MAN)
>> $(if $(wildcard $(obj)/man/*.9),gzip -f $(obj)/man/*.9)
>>
>>> It looks like, for whatever reason, make installmandocs always ends up
>>> rerunning mandocs -- there's now a 'GEN Documentation
>>> Docbook//v4l2.xml' printed, and that extra mandocs invocation is where
>>> the problematic second invocation of find is coming from. I won't
>>> pretend to understand the Makefile flow to guess at why that's
>>> happening, but obviously 'make mandocs; make installmandocs' shouldn't
>>> need to regenerate things already generated.
>>
>> I won't pretend to understand the Makefile flow either. Guess it might
>> be worth looking into v4l2.xml as well then. Could be some directory
>> shenanigans going on judging from the '//'.
>>
>
> I looked into it some more, and I'm now fairly certain that 'mandocs' always
> runs its recipe regardless of the status of the prerequisites. Changing the
> top-level Makefile to do
>
> $(Q)$(MAKE) --debug=v $(build)=Documentation/DocBook $@
>
> and running 'make mandocs', you see some FORCEs in the output, which -- unless
> my make fu is weak -- causes all the targets above that to always be considered
> out of date:
>
> File 'mandocs' does not exist.
> Considering target file 'Documentation/DocBook/z8530book.9'.
> Considering target file 'Documentation/DocBook/z8530book.xml'.
> ...
> Considering target file 'FORCE'.
> File 'FORCE' does not exist.
> Finished prerequisites of target file 'FORCE'.
> Must remake target 'FORCE'.
> Successfully remade target file 'FORCE'.
> ...
> Must remake target 'Documentation/DocBook/z8530book.xml'.
> ...
> Must remake target 'mandocs'.
Had forgotten that 'mandocs' is a phony target too. That alone makes it always
run its recipe when it's a prerequisite of some target that's run.
>
>
> Re. the 'GEN Documentation Docbook//v4l2.xml', I think the problem is the
> following rule in Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile:
>
> $(MEDIA_OBJ_DIR)/v4l2.xml: $(OBJIMGFILES)
> @$($(quiet)gen_xml)
> @(ln -sf `cd $(MEDIA_SRC_DIR) && /bin/pwd`/v4l/*xml $(MEDIA_OBJ_DIR)/)
> @(ln -sf `cd $(MEDIA_SRC_DIR) && /bin/pwd`/dvb/*xml $(MEDIA_OBJ_DIR)/)
>
> ./Documentation/DocBook/v4l2.xml is a symlink, so make compares the
> modification time of the symlink *target* (which is never updated) against the
> image (*.png, *.gif, etc.) files in $(OBJIMGFILES). Updating the symlink itself
> won't change that modification time, so that's why it always runs.
>
> Passing --check-symlink-times to make so that it also looks at the modification
> time of the symlink seems to change a bunch of other stuff in the output too.
> Maybe there's other problems lurking here as well.
>
>>>
>>> In any event,
>>>
>>> Tested-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Jim
>>
>> I just noticed the commit message only mentions the alternative
>> solutions and not the implemented solution. Could send a v2 that fixes
>> that, but I'll wait for more comments first.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ulf
>
> Cheers,
> Ulf
Cheers,
Ulf
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