On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 07:17:37AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:13:45PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > After upgrading to make v4.4.1 (released last week), there's no longer any
> > progress output from builds of the Linux kernel v4.19 and earlier. It seems the
> > actual build still works, but it's now silent except for warnings and errors.
> >
> > It bisects to the following 'make' commit:
> >
> > commit dc2d963989b96161472b2cd38cef5d1f4851ea34
> > Author: Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun Nov 27 14:09:17 2022 -0500
> >
> > [SV 63347] Always add command line variable assignments to MAKEFLAGS
> >
> > Is this an intentional breakage from the 'make' side?
>
> Ah, thanks for figuring this out, it's been bugging me locally for a bit
> as well! The fact that kernels 5.4 and newer imply to me that there is
> a kernel build fix that should resolve this if someone can take the time
> to bisect it...
>
Fix bisection comes up with the following kernel commit:
commit 80463f1b7bf9f822fd3495139bcf3ef254fdca10
Author: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Sep 14 15:33:23 2018 +0900
kbuild: add --include-dir flag only for out-of-tree build
But only for in-tree builds. Out-of-tree builds need:
commit 3812b8c5c5d527239ac015f1f2c7654da7fcfbba
Author: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 22 16:40:07 2019 +0900
kbuild: make -r/-R effective in top Makefile for old Make versions
Masahiro, what dependencies (if any) do the above two commits have in order to
be backported to 4.19 and 4.14?
- Eric
