Hi Rob,
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 7:18 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Any non-phony targets need to be in gitignore. The normal way to check
> this is doing an in-tree build and running git-status which is easy to
> miss. Git provides an easy way to check whether a file is ignored with
> git-check-ignore. Let's add a build time check using it. If the build is
> not in a git tree, the check will silently fail.
>
> This also has the side effect of a sanity check for 'always-y',
> 'extra-y' and 'targets' entries which are not correctly marked as PHONY
> or have the wrong path.
>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch!
After removing the .git directory from my repository clone, or
removing the git command from $PATH:
scripts/Makefile.lib:106: scripts/basic/fixdep is missing gitignore entry
scripts/Makefile.lib:106: scripts/sorttable is missing gitignore entry
[...]
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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