On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 22:36, Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Fix building with KBUILD_NOCMDDEP=1, which currently does not work > because it does not build built-in.o with no dependencies: > > LD fs/notify/built-in.o > ld: cannot find fs/notify/dnotify/built-in.o: No such file or directory > ld: cannot find fs/notify/inotify/built-in.o: No such file or directory > ld: cannot find fs/notify/fanotify/built-in.o: No such file or directory > > Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx> Any comments on this patch? I found KBUILD_NOCMDDEP useful when hunting down a bug that appeared only in a certain compiler version. Used it to build some files using one compiler and the rest using the other. It would be nice if it worked out of the box; it will after this patch. > --- > scripts/Kbuild.include | 4 ++++ > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include > index ed2773e..fd31781 100644 > --- a/scripts/Kbuild.include > +++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include > @@ -187,6 +187,10 @@ ifneq ($(KBUILD_NOCMDDEP),1) > # User may override this check using make KBUILD_NOCMDDEP=1 > arg-check = $(strip $(filter-out $(cmd_$(1)), $(cmd_$@)) \ > $(filter-out $(cmd_$@), $(cmd_$(1))) ) > +else > +# Ensure that files with no dependencies are built. > +built-check = $(filter $(origin cmd_$@), undefined) > +arg-check = $(if $(strip $(obj-y)),,$(built-check)) > endif > > # >'< substitution is for echo to work, > -- > 1.7.4.1 > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html