From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/Makefile: Mark phony targets as PHONY
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:18:27 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7LNARm+iePH7F-W3ur5=TfhQSAdbOzX-uLm_9Qak-hFZ2EdQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200219000434.15872-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au>
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:04 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> Some of our phony targets are not marked as such. This can lead to
> confusing errors, eg:
>
> $ make clean
> $ touch install
> $ make install
> make: 'install' is up to date.
> $
>
> Fix it by adding them to the PHONY variable which is marked phony in
> the top-level Makefile, or in scripts/Makefile.build for the boot
> Makefile.
>
> Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-19 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-19 0:04 [PATCH v2] powerpc/Makefile: Mark phony targets as PHONY Michael Ellerman
2020-02-19 2:18 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2020-03-06 0:27 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-03-06 4:06 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-03-10 12:00 ` Michael Ellerman
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