From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E57E5B6EEE for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 03:56:48 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: make 3.82 fails on powerpc defconfig update [was: Linux 2.6.35] From: Paul Smith To: Thomas Backlund In-Reply-To: <4C5686FF.9010803@mandriva.org> References: <4C5686FF.9010803@mandriva.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:56:43 -0400 Message-ID: <1281203803.5923.164.camel@homebase> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , bug-make@gnu.org Reply-To: psmith@gnu.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 11:51 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote: > BOOT_TARGETS = zImage zImage.initrd uImage zImage% dtbImage% > treeImage.% cuImage.% simpleImage.% > > Now, I dont know if this is "intended breakage" by the make update, or > if the Makefile needs to be updated.... The change is intentional. Note, though, that this syntax was always dodgy, even in previous versions of GNU make. If you wrote it exactly as you did, where all the explicit targets come first and all the implicit targets come second, then it seems to have been interpreted correctly. However, if you did it any other way (for example, put some explicit targets after the first implicit target) then make would silently throw away all the targets starting with the first implicit target. Since the syntax used here wasn't ever described in the documentation, rather than reworking it as a new feature I decided to follow the docs and disallow it, and be verbose about the error. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist