Re: [RFC PATCH 01/11] kbuild: ignore .config rule for make --always-make

[Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 06:02:58PM +0200 Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Before this patch, using 'make --always-make' would always result in the
> error message about the missing .config being displayed.
> 
> Detect the -B/--always-make flag and leave this rule out, which allows the
> rest of the build to proceed. See [1] for an explanation of this particular
> construction.

Nice catch, thanks.

> 
> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Testing-Flags
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
> ---
>  Makefile | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 44c02a6f60a14..f09c036daf2f5 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -757,6 +757,10 @@ ifdef may-sync-config
>  # because some architectures define CROSS_COMPILE there.
>  include include/config/auto.conf.cmd
>  
> +ifeq (,$(findstring B,$(firstword -$(MAKEFLAGS))))

As we still also support make v3.80 to v4.0, please use $(short-opts)
defined around line 27.

> +# This is a dummy target, only meant as a help for the user invoking make.
> +# We don't want it to take effect when running 'make --always-make', since
> +# that renders the --always-make option effectively useless.
>  $(KCONFIG_CONFIG):
>  	@echo >&2 '***'
>  	@echo >&2 '*** Configuration file "$@" not found!'
> @@ -765,6 +769,7 @@ $(KCONFIG_CONFIG):
>  	@echo >&2 '*** "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig").'
>  	@echo >&2 '***'
>  	@/bin/false
> +endif
>  
>  # The actual configuration files used during the build are stored in
>  # include/generated/ and include/config/. Update them if .config is newer than
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>