linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: add build-only configurator targets

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Date:   Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:30:12 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: add build-only configurator targets

On 08/15/2018 08:27 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 2018-08-15 9:36 GMT+09:00 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>:
>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>>
>> Add build-only targets for build_menuconfig, build_nconfig,
>> build_xconfig, and build_gconfig.
>> (targets must end in "config" to qualify in top-level Makefile)
>>
>> This allows these target to be built without execution (e.g., to
>> look for errors or warnings) and/or to be built and checked by sparse.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>> ---
>>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile |    8 ++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>
>> --- linux-next-20180814.orig/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>> +++ linux-next-20180814/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>> @@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ config: $(obj)/conf
>>  nconfig: $(obj)/nconf
>>         $< $(silent) $(Kconfig)
>>
>> +build_menuconfig: $(obj)/mconf
>> +
>> +build_nconfig: $(obj)/nconf
>> +
>> +build_gconfig: $(obj)/gconf
>> +
>> +build_xconfig: $(obj)/qconf
>> +
>>  localyesconfig localmodconfig: $(obj)/conf
>>         $(Q)perl $(srctree)/$(src)/streamline_config.pl --$@ $(srctree) $(Kconfig) > .tmp.config
>>         $(Q)if [ -f .config ]; then                                     \
>>
> 
> 
> OK, seems useful,
> but these should be phony targets.
> 
> May I squash the following change?
> 

Of course.  Thanks.

> 
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> index c0ca9ea..f7bdcc9 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
>  # Kernel configuration targets
>  # These targets are used from top-level makefile
> 
> -PHONY += xconfig gconfig menuconfig config localmodconfig localyesconfig
> +PHONY += xconfig gconfig menuconfig config localmodconfig localyesconfig \
> +       build_menuconfig build_nconfig build_gconfig build_xconfig
> 
>  ifdef KBUILD_KCONFIG
>  Kconfig := $(KBUILD_KCONFIG)


-- 
~Randy