Re: Can we fix samples/ dependency on headers please?

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 02:58:11PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently having to mark various userspace programs I've added to the
> samples/ directory as BROKEN in samples/Kconfig because the root Makefile
> mucks up the dependencies between building samples and headers_install.
> 
> The main culprit seems to be:
> 
> 	commit dd92478a15fa3bfd746ee08b4ef59401c1537804
> 	Author: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
> 	Date:   Sun Feb 28 22:00:00 2016 -0500
> 	kbuild: build sample modules along with the rest of the kernel
>  
> which make the samples build in parallel with the build, thereby voiding the
> explicit dependency:
> 
> 	Documentation/ samples/: headers_install
> 
> and thereby breaking:
> 
> 	commit ddea05fa148b4d8e66498e522a616d87f9cf81e3
> 	Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 	Date:   Mon Jul 4 16:39:35 2016 +0200
> 	kbuild: make samples depend on headers_install

Breaking a commit 4 months before its creation is quite a feat...  Said that,
something along the lines of Arnd's commit is needed (build of samples/*
should happen against the kernel-supplied headers; it certainly should not
depend upon having make headers_install done on the same tree in previous
build.  The problem, AFAICS, is that dependency is for explicit samples/ in
the target list, not samples/<anything> being added there.  Worse, by the
time we get to those, we don't see top-level Makefile targets, so e.g.
adding explict
$(obj)/.test-fsmount.cmd: headers_install
won't work...