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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2020-08-01 21:27:18 +0900
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2020-08-10 01:32:59 +0900
commitfaabed295cccc2aba2b67f2e7b309f2892d55004 (patch)
treee5fa5b8a2d7437a5da376b5d8ecc7b044457e772 /scripts/basic
parent85569d19d0f57df5e6cbb918dbddd4f82c0117b5 (diff)
kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
To build host programs, you need to add the program names to 'hostprogs' to use the necessary build rule, but it is not enough to build them because there is no dependency. There are two types of host programs: built as the prerequisite of another (e.g. gen_crc32table in lib/Makefile), or always built when Kbuild visits the Makefile (e.g. genksyms in scripts/genksyms/Makefile). The latter is typical in Makefiles under scripts/, which contains host programs globally used during the kernel build. To build them, you need to add them to both 'hostprogs' and 'always-y'. This commit adds hostprogs-always-y as a shorthand. The same applies to user programs. net/bpfilter/Makefile builds bpfilter_umh on demand, hence always-y is unneeded. In contrast, programs under samples/ are added to both 'userprogs' and 'always-y' so they are always built when Kbuild visits the Makefiles. userprogs-always-y works as a shorthand. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/basic')
-rw-r--r--scripts/basic/Makefile3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/basic/Makefile b/scripts/basic/Makefile
index 290dd27d2809..eeb6a38c5551 100644
--- a/scripts/basic/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/basic/Makefile
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@
#
# fixdep: used to generate dependency information during build process
-hostprogs := fixdep
-always-y := $(hostprogs)
+hostprogs-always-y += fixdep