Since commit d5470d14431e ("kbuild: re-implement Makefile.headersinst without recursion"), headers_install emits an ugly warning. $ make headers_install [ snip ] UPD include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h find: ‘./include/uapi/Kbuild’: No such file or directory HDRINST usr/include/video/uvesafb.h ... This happens for GNU Make <= 4.2.1 When I wrote that commit, I missed this warning because I was using the state-of-the-art Make version compiled from the git tree. $(wildcard $(src)/*/) is intended to match to only existing directories since it has a trailing slash, but actually matches to regular files too. (include/uapi/Kbuild in this case) This is a bug of GNU Make, and was fixed by: | commit b7acb10e86dc8f5fdf2a2bbd87e1059c315e31d6 | Author: spagoveanu@xxxxxxxxx <spagoveanu@xxxxxxxxx> | Date: Wed Jun 20 02:03:48 2018 +0300 | | * src/dir.c: Preserve glob d_type field We need to cater to old Make versions. Add '$(filter %/,...) to filter out the regular files. Fixes: d5470d14431e ("kbuild: re-implement Makefile.headersinst without recursion") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/Makefile.headersinst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.headersinst b/scripts/Makefile.headersinst index d2b572a7a628..ddc764838df2 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.headersinst +++ b/scripts/Makefile.headersinst @@ -20,8 +20,10 @@ dst := usr/include -include $(src)/Kbuild -src-subdirs := $(patsubst $(src)/%/,%,$(wildcard $(src)/*/)) -gen-subdirs := $(patsubst $(gen)/%/,%,$(wildcard $(gen)/*/)) +# $(filter %/, ...) is needed to workaround the bug for GNU Make <= 4.2.1 +# $(wildcard $(src)/*/) contains not only directories but also regular files. +src-subdirs := $(patsubst $(src)/%/,%,$(filter %/, $(wildcard $(src)/*/))) +gen-subdirs := $(patsubst $(gen)/%/,%,$(filter %/, $(wildcard $(gen)/*/))) all-subdirs := $(sort $(src-subdirs) $(gen-subdirs)) src-headers := $(if $(src-subdirs), $(shell cd $(src) && find $(src-subdirs) -name '*.h')) -- 2.17.1