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Masahiro Yamada authored
Adding -rR to MAKEFLAGS is important because we do not want to be bothered by built-in implicit rules or variables. One problem that used to exist in older GNU Make versions is MAKEFLAGS += -rR ... does not become effective in the current Makefile. When you are building with O= option, it becomes effective in the top Makefile since it recurses via 'sub-make' target. Otherwise, the top Makefile tries implicit rules. That is why we explicitly add empty rules for Makefiles, but we often miss to do that. In fact, adding -d option to older GNU Make versions shows it is trying a bunch of implicit pattern rules. Considering target file `scripts/Makefile.kcov'. Looking for an implicit rule for `scripts/Makefile.kcov'. Trying pattern rule with stem `Makefile.kcov'. Trying implicit prerequisite `scripts/Makefile.kcov.o'. Trying pattern rule with stem `Makefile.kcov'. Trying implicit prerequisite `scripts/Makefile.kcov.c'. Trying pattern rule with stem `Makefile.kcov'. Trying implicit prerequisite `scripts/Makefile.kcov.cc'. Trying pattern rule with stem `Makefile.kcov'. Trying implicit prerequisite `scripts/Makefile.kcov.C'. ... This issue was fixed by GNU Make commit 58dae243526b ("[Savannah #20501] Handle adding -r/-R to MAKEFLAGS in the makefile"). So, it is no longer a problem if you use GNU Make 4.0 or later. However, older versions are still widely used. So, I decided to patch the kernel Makefile to invoke sub-make regardless of O= option. This will allow further cleanups. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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