On 2016-04-26 22:48, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > >> Hi Nicolas, >> >> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 10:40:57 -0400 (EDT) Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> If you can reproduce this build failure, could you try a make mrproper >>> and attempt it again? I, too, would like to find an explanation and a >>> way to reproduce. >> >> I reset my build tree to commit 9d67df654092 ("Merge remote-tracking >> branch 'block/for-next'") and the build failed with: >> >> ERROR: ".local_clock" [drivers/vhost/vhost_net.ko] undefined! >> ERROR: ".local_clock" [drivers/misc/cxl/cxl.ko] undefined! >> >> :-( >> >> So I did a "make mrproper" and did the build again. >> >> That built correctly. >> > [...] > > OK! After digging and diffing through 750 megabytes of make debug logs > I finally found the explanation. The if_changed directive is useless > against phony targets. > > @Stephen: could you replace the revert with the patch below in your tree? > > @Michal: could you fold the patch below into commit 2441e78b19 in your tree? I prefer not to overwrite the topic branches unless necessary and I wanted to credit Stephen, so I committed your patch with a fabricated commit message and your signoff (since you wanted to fold it into a patch that you had already signed off). Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html