The patch titled Subject: scripts/gdb: rebuild constants.py on dependancy change has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scripts-gdb-rebuild-constantspy-on-dependancy-change.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/scripts-gdb-rebuild-constantspy-on-dependancy-change.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/scripts-gdb-rebuild-constantspy-on-dependancy-change.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Kieran Bingham <kieran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: scripts/gdb: rebuild constants.py on dependancy change The autogenerated constants.py file was only being built on the initial call, and if the constants.py.in file changed. As we are utilising the CPP hooks, we can successfully use the call if_changed_dep rules to determine when to rebuild the file based on it's inclusions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467127337-11135-3-git-send-email-kieran@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile~scripts-gdb-rebuild-constantspy-on-dependancy-change scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile~scripts-gdb-rebuild-constantspy-on-dependancy-change +++ a/scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ quiet_cmd_gen_constants_py = GEN $@ $(CPP) -E -x c -P $(c_flags) $< > $@ ;\ sed -i '1,/<!-- end-c-headers -->/d;' $@ -$(obj)/constants.py: $(SRCTREE)/$(obj)/constants.py.in - $(call if_changed,gen_constants_py) +targets += constants.py +$(obj)/constants.py: $(SRCTREE)/$(obj)/constants.py.in FORCE + $(call if_changed_dep,gen_constants_py) build_constants_py: $(obj)/constants.py @: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kieran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are scripts-gdb-silence-nothing-to-do-message.patch scripts-gdb-rebuild-constantspy-on-dependancy-change.patch revert-scripts-gdb-add-a-radix-tree-parser.patch revert-scripts-gdb-add-documentation-example-for-radix-tree.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html