On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:00:01PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> 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.
OK, so you have a use case for it. I was about to ask if it wouldn't be
easier to drop this feature instead :).
>
> > ---
> > 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
I'm not sure if this is the rigt way to fix it. Kbuild.include should
not care about obj-*. The problem is that arg-check is always empty with
KBUILD_NOCMDDEP and if there are no other dependencies, the target will
not be created, right? IMO we only need to make sure that during the
first make run, arg-check always expands to non-empty, even with
KBUILD_NOCMDDEP. So we can drop the $(obj-y) test and do it like this
(untested), can't we?
diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include
index c034dd7..be39cd1 100644
--- a/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ ifneq ($(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
+arg-check = $(if $(strip $(cmd_$@)),,1)
endif
# >'< substitution is for echo to work,
while at it, we should also add KBUILD_NOCMDDEP to
Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt.
Michal
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