Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753733Ab0HGR4s (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2010 13:56:48 -0400 Received: from cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.11]:36033 "HELO cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752865Ab0HGR4r (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2010 13:56:47 -0400 Subject: Re: make 3.82 fails on powerpc defconfig update [was: Linux 2.6.35] From: Paul Smith Reply-To: psmith@gnu.org To: Thomas Backlund Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, bug-make@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <4C5686FF.9010803@mandriva.org> References: <4C5686FF.9010803@mandriva.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Organization: GNU's Not Unix! Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:56:43 -0400 Message-ID: <1281203803.5923.164.camel@homebase> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {678:box531.bluehost.com:madscie1:mad-scientist.us} {sentby:smtp auth 146.115.68.18 authed with paul+mad-scientist.us} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1512 Lines: 33 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/