Make 4.4 introduces several backward incompatibilities and the result is that building trace-cmd with it never finishes. It seems that make ends up in some kind of infinite recursion. The symptoms are: $ make -d GNU Make 4.4 Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 1988-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Reading makefiles... Reading makefile 'Makefile'... Makefile:79: not recursively expanding pkgconfig_dir to export to shell function Makefile:79: not recursively expanding pkgconfig_dir to export to shell function Makefile:224: not recursively expanding LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_VERSION to export to shell function Makefile:79: not recursively expanding pkgconfig_dir to export to shell function Makefile:224: not recursively expanding LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_VERSION to export to shell function Makefile:225: not recursively expanding LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_SO to export to shell function Makefile:79: not recursively expanding pkgconfig_dir to export to shell function Makefile:79: not recursively expanding pkgconfig_dir to export to shell function Build succeeds if recursively expanded variables (defined with '='), which use $(shell ...) as its value, are replaced with simply expanded variables (defined with ':='). Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <michal.sojka@xxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 22 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index bda49dd..d50e625 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -221,8 +221,8 @@ LIBS ?= -ldl LIBTRACECMD_DIR = $(obj)/lib/trace-cmd LIBTRACECMD_STATIC = $(LIBTRACECMD_DIR)/libtracecmd.a LIBTRACECMD_SHARED = $(LIBTRACECMD_DIR)/libtracecmd.so.$(LIBTRACECMD_VERSION) -LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_VERSION = $(shell echo $(LIBTRACECMD_SHARED) | sed -e 's/\(\.so\.[0-9]*\).*/\1/') -LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_SO = $(shell echo $(LIBTRACECMD_SHARED) | sed -e 's/\(\.so\).*/\1/') +LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_VERSION := $(shell echo $(LIBTRACECMD_SHARED) | sed -e 's/\(\.so\.[0-9]*\).*/\1/') +LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_SO := $(shell echo $(LIBTRACECMD_SHARED) | sed -e 's/\(\.so\).*/\1/') export LIBTRACECMD_STATIC LIBTRACECMD_SHARED export LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_VERSION LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_SO @@ -230,12 +230,12 @@ export LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_VERSION LIBTRACECMD_SHARED_SO LIBTRACEEVENT=libtraceevent LIBTRACEFS=libtracefs -TEST_LIBTRACEEVENT = $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --atleast-version $(LIBTRACEEVENT_MIN_VERSION) $(LIBTRACEEVENT) > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y") -TEST_LIBTRACEFS = $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --atleast-version $(LIBTRACEFS_MIN_VERSION) $(LIBTRACEFS) > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y") +TEST_LIBTRACEEVENT := $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --atleast-version $(LIBTRACEEVENT_MIN_VERSION) $(LIBTRACEEVENT) > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y") +TEST_LIBTRACEFS := $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --atleast-version $(LIBTRACEFS_MIN_VERSION) $(LIBTRACEFS) > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y") ifeq ("$(TEST_LIBTRACEEVENT)", "y") -LIBTRACEEVENT_CFLAGS = $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags $(LIBTRACEEVENT)") -LIBTRACEEVENT_LDLAGS = $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --libs $(LIBTRACEEVENT)") +LIBTRACEEVENT_CFLAGS := $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags $(LIBTRACEEVENT)") +LIBTRACEEVENT_LDLAGS := $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --libs $(LIBTRACEEVENT)") else .PHONY: warning warning: @@ -253,8 +253,8 @@ endif export LIBTRACEEVENT_CFLAGS LIBTRACEEVENT_LDLAGS ifeq ("$(TEST_LIBTRACEFS)", "y") -LIBTRACEFS_CFLAGS = $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags $(LIBTRACEFS)") -LIBTRACEFS_LDLAGS = $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --libs $(LIBTRACEFS)") +LIBTRACEFS_CFLAGS := $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags $(LIBTRACEFS)") +LIBTRACEFS_LDLAGS := $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --libs $(LIBTRACEFS)") else .PHONY: warning warning: @@ -324,11 +324,11 @@ endif export ZLIB_LDLAGS ifndef NO_LIBZSTD -TEST_LIBZSTD = $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --atleast-version 1.4.0 libzstd > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y") +TEST_LIBZSTD := $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --atleast-version 1.4.0 libzstd > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y") ifeq ("$(TEST_LIBZSTD)", "y") -LIBZSTD_CFLAGS = $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags libzstd") -LIBZSTD_LDLAGS = $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --libs libzstd") +LIBZSTD_CFLAGS := $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags libzstd") +LIBZSTD_LDLAGS := $(shell sh -c "$(PKG_CONFIG) --libs libzstd") CFLAGS += -DHAVE_ZSTD ZSTD_INSTALLED=1 $(info Have ZSTD compression support) -- 2.38.1