linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header installation

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Message-ID: <20250512-uptight-logical-panther-cbdcda@l-nschier-aarch64>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 14:17:09 +0200
From: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>
To: Henrik Lindström <henrik@....se>
Cc: masahiroy@...nel.org, nathan@...nel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header
 installation

On Sat, 10 May 2025, Henrik Lindström wrote:

> There doesn't seem to be any purpose behind this dependency, and it prevents
> installing x86 and mips headers on non Linux systems. Doing so is useful when
> building a cross compiler targetting Linux, which requires the header files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Lindström <henrik@....se>
> ---
>  Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index b29cc321ffd9..0234faafe8f0 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ PHONY += archheaders archscripts
>  hdr-inst := -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.headersinst obj
>  
>  PHONY += headers
> -headers: $(version_h) scripts_unifdef uapi-asm-generic archheaders archscripts
> +headers: $(version_h) scripts_unifdef uapi-asm-generic archheaders
>  ifdef HEADER_ARCH
>  	$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile HEADER_ARCH= SRCARCH=$(HEADER_ARCH) headers
>  else
> -- 
> 2.39.5
> 

Looks reasonable to me, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@....de>