It is weird to create gdb stuff as a side-effect of vmlinux. Move it to a more relevant place. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index a5762c6..0459260 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1015,9 +1015,6 @@ cmd_link-vmlinux = \ $(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) $@, true) vmlinux: scripts/link-vmlinux.sh autoksyms_recursive $(vmlinux-deps) FORCE -ifdef CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS - $(Q)ln -fsn $(abspath $(srctree)/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py) -endif +$(call if_changed,link-vmlinux) targets := vmlinux @@ -1519,6 +1516,7 @@ $(DOC_TARGETS): scripts_basic FORCE PHONY += scripts_gdb scripts_gdb: prepare $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/gdb + $(Q)ln -fsn $(abspath $(srctree)/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py) ifdef CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS all: scripts_gdb -- 2.7.4