Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Remove old *-config-devices.mak.d files when running configure

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 3/11/19 5:29 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> When running "make" in a build directory from the pre-Kconfig merge time,
> the build process currently fails with:
> 
>  make: *** No rule to make target `.../default-configs/pci.mak',
>   needed by `aarch64-softmmu/config-devices.mak'.  Stop.
> 
> To make sure that this problem at least goes away when the user runs
> "configure" (or "sh config.status") again, we have to make sure that
> we re-generate the .mak.d files. Thus remove the old stale files
> while running the configure script.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

What are the conditions for make deciding it needs to rerun
config.status? Are end users still going to get 'make' failing with the
cryptic message (where we just advise on-list and on-wiki to
'./config.status' to fix it), or is there a way to build in a dependency
so that the makefile itself knows that if config.status has to be rerun,
that takes priority over any other rule that depends on .mak files?

> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index b354e74..32c847f 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -1792,6 +1792,9 @@ EOF
>  exit 0
>  fi
>  
> +# Remove old dependency files to make sure that they get properly regenerated
> +rm -f *-config-devices.mak.d
> +
>  if ! has $python; then
>    error_exit "Python not found. Use --python=/path/to/python"
>  fi
> 

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org


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