linux-kernel - Re: make clean all broken with -j? + question regarding modpost

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Date:   Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:06:55 +0200
From:   Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Jim Davis <jim.epost@...il.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: make clean all broken with -j? + question regarding modpost

Hi Masahiro
> 
> Kbuild does not cater to the mixture of clean targets and build targets,
> but I do not know why.

The details has long escaped me but in general we do not want to
have a job deleting all .o files running in parallel with a job that
creates .o files.

So we wanted the following to work:

	$make mrproper defconfig

make would in the standard configuration execute "mrproper" and "defconfig"
in parallel which would result in a broken build.

This is the background for some of the ugly hacks in the
top-level makefile.

	Sam