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Re: [XEN PATCH v7 29/51] build: add an other explicite rules to not build $(XEN_ROOT)/.config


  • To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
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On 24.08.2021 12:50, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> GNU Make will try to rebuild every Makefile included with the
> "include" directive, so everytime Config.mk is used, make will try to
> build ".config". This would normally not be an issue, unless we happen
> to have a rules which match. This is the case with Kconfig in xen/.
> 
> While we had a workaround in "xen/Makefile", this ".config" files
> becomes an issue again in "xen/tools/kconfig/Makefile". It has a
> target "%.config".

"we had" sounds like we don't have such anymore, but I don't think I've
seen it go away. I'm also not convinced working around an isolated issue
in xen/tools/kconfig/Makefile is appropriate to be done by adding stuff
to Rules.mk.

Jan




 


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