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author | Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> | 2005-09-11 16:30:22 -0400 |
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committer | Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> | 2005-09-11 16:30:22 -0400 |
commit | 5bb78269000cf326bfdfa19f79449c02a9158020 (patch) | |
tree | f01e30e8d8f015cb0418331da55a459ddcfc9569 /Documentation | |
parent | 9fe66dfd8846706ff11ed7990d06c92644973bd8 (diff) |
kbuild: rename prepare to archprepare to fix dependency chain
When introducing the generic asm-offsets.h support the dependency
chain for the prepare targets was changed. All build scripts expecting
include/asm/asm-offsets.h to be made when using the prepare target would broke.
With the limited number of prepare targets left in arch Makefiles
the trivial solution was to introduce a new arch specific target: archprepare
The dependency chain looks like this now:
prepare
|
+--> prepare0
|
+--> archprepare
|
+--> scripts_basic
+--> prepare1
|
+---> prepare2
|
+--> prepare3
So prepare 3 is processed before prepare2 etc.
This guaantees that the asm symlink, version.h, scripts_basic
are all updated before archprepare is processed.
prepare0 which build the asm-offsets.h file will need the
actions performed by archprepare.
The head target is now named prepare, because users scripts will most
likely use that target, but prepare-all has been kept for compatibility.
Updated Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 9a1586590d8..d802ce88bed 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | |||
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles. | |||
31 | 31 | ||
32 | === 6 Architecture Makefiles | 32 | === 6 Architecture Makefiles |
33 | --- 6.1 Set variables to tweak the build to the architecture | 33 | --- 6.1 Set variables to tweak the build to the architecture |
34 | --- 6.2 Add prerequisites to prepare: | 34 | --- 6.2 Add prerequisites to archprepare: |
35 | --- 6.3 List directories to visit when descending | 35 | --- 6.3 List directories to visit when descending |
36 | --- 6.4 Architecture specific boot images | 36 | --- 6.4 Architecture specific boot images |
37 | --- 6.5 Building non-kbuild targets | 37 | --- 6.5 Building non-kbuild targets |
@@ -734,18 +734,18 @@ When kbuild executes the following steps are followed (roughly): | |||
734 | for loadable kernel modules. | 734 | for loadable kernel modules. |
735 | 735 | ||
736 | 736 | ||
737 | --- 6.2 Add prerequisites to prepare: | 737 | --- 6.2 Add prerequisites to archprepare: |
738 | 738 | ||
739 | The prepare: rule is used to list prerequisites that needs to be | 739 | The archprepare: rule is used to list prerequisites that needs to be |
740 | built before starting to descend down in the subdirectories. | 740 | built before starting to descend down in the subdirectories. |
741 | This is usual header files containing assembler constants. | 741 | This is usual header files containing assembler constants. |
742 | 742 | ||
743 | Example: | 743 | Example: |
744 | #arch/s390/Makefile | 744 | #arch/arm/Makefile |
745 | prepare: include/asm-$(ARCH)/offsets.h | 745 | archprepare: maketools |
746 | 746 | ||
747 | In this example the file include/asm-$(ARCH)/offsets.h will | 747 | In this example the file target maketools will be processed |
748 | be built before descending down in the subdirectories. | 748 | before descending down in the subdirectories. |
749 | See also chapter XXX-TODO that describe how kbuild supports | 749 | See also chapter XXX-TODO that describe how kbuild supports |
750 | generating offset header files. | 750 | generating offset header files. |
751 | 751 | ||