The top-level Makefile adds include/config/auto.conf as prerequisites of 'scripts', 'prepare1', etc. They were needed to terminate the build when include/config/auto.conf is missing. Now that the inclusion of include/config/auto.conf is mandatory in the top-level Makefile if dot-config is 1 (Note 'include' directive is used instead of '-include'). Make terminates the build by itself if it fails to create or update include/config/auto.conf so we are sure that include/config/auto.conf exists in the very first stage of make. I am still keeping include/config/auto.conf as the prerequisite of %/modules.builtin because modules.builtin is a real file. According to commit a6c366324cac ("kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin"), it is intentional to compare time-stamps between %/modules.builtin and include/config/auto.conf . I moved tristate.conf here because it is only included from scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v4: None Makefile | 14 ++++---------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 0ec1c27..ceb9c1e 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -650,10 +650,6 @@ include/config/auto.conf: /bin/false) endif # may-sync-config - -else -# Dummy target needed, because used as prerequisite -include/config/auto.conf: ; endif # $(dot-config) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks,) @@ -1048,15 +1044,14 @@ define filechk_kernel.release endef # Store (new) KERNELRELEASE string in include/config/kernel.release -include/config/kernel.release: include/config/auto.conf FORCE +include/config/kernel.release: $(srctree)/Makefile FORCE $(call filechk,kernel.release) # Additional helpers built in scripts/ # Carefully list dependencies so we do not try to build scripts twice # in parallel PHONY += scripts -scripts: scripts_basic include/config/auto.conf include/config/tristate.conf \ - asm-generic gcc-plugins $(autoksyms_h) +scripts: scripts_basic asm-generic gcc-plugins $(autoksyms_h) $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(@) # Things we need to do before we recursively start building the kernel @@ -1086,8 +1081,7 @@ endif # that need to depend on updated CONFIG_* values can be checked here. prepare2: prepare3 outputmakefile asm-generic -prepare1: prepare2 $(version_h) $(autoksyms_h) include/generated/utsrelease.h \ - include/config/auto.conf +prepare1: prepare2 $(version_h) $(autoksyms_h) include/generated/utsrelease.h $(cmd_crmodverdir) archprepare: archheaders archscripts prepare1 scripts_basic @@ -1225,7 +1219,7 @@ modules: $(vmlinux-dirs) $(if $(KBUILD_BUILTIN),vmlinux) modules.builtin modules.builtin: $(vmlinux-dirs:%=%/modules.builtin) $(Q)$(AWK) '!x[$$0]++' $^ > $(objtree)/modules.builtin -%/modules.builtin: include/config/auto.conf +%/modules.builtin: include/config/auto.conf include/config/tristate.conf $(Q)$(MAKE) $(modbuiltin)=$* -- 2.7.4 -- 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