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SubjectRe: [PATCH[ Makefile: Fix scripts_basic / archscripts build order
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On 9/19/12 1:42 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Kbuild people, any comments?

Thanks for bouncing along.

This patch is wrong. It fixes the 'make' case because scripts_basic is
build before archscripts but doesn't get rid of the root cause.

'make archscripts' alone still fails. I'll send a replacement that
addresses that dependency issue directly.

- -Jeff

> On 09/19/2012 10:38 AM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>> The SUSE kernel packages are built by doing the following:
>>
>> make silentoldonfig make prepare make scripts make clean
>>
>> <capture file list used for building modules>
>>
>> make -j$NCPUs
>>
>> On parallel builds (also using -C/O=), this can occasionally fail
>> with: HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep /bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep:
>> No such file or directory make[3]: *** [arch/x86/tools/relocs]
>> Error 1 make[2]: *** [archscripts] Error 2 make[2]: *** Waiting
>> for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 make: ***
>> [all] Error 2
>>
>> The error can also be "Permission denied."
>>
>> Without the make clean this works ok.
>>
>> What seems to be happening is that fixdep exists so relocs is
>> able to be rebuilt, but then somewhere there is a FORCE rule that
>> applies to fixdep so it is rebuilt. If the timing is right, the
>> relocs build can happen while the fixdep rebuild is happening and
>> we either get a non-executable fixdep or a nonexistent fixdep.
>>
>> This patch moves the archscripts dependency after scripts_basic
>> so that fixdep is always built after relocs. If I understand the
>> build order correctly, this should be the case since
>> scripts_basic is essentially a prereq of everything.
>>
>> This was introduced by commit 6520fe55 (x86, realmode: 16-bit
>> real-mode code support for relocs), which added the archscripts
>> dependency to archprepare.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> --- Makefile | 2
>> +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ prepare1:
>> prepare2 include/linux/version include/config/auto.conf
>> $(cmd_crmodverdir)
>>
>> -archprepare: archheaders archscripts prepare1 scripts_basic
>> +archprepare: archheaders scripts_basic archscripts prepare1
>>
>> prepare0: archprepare FORCE $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=.
>>
>
>


- --
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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