netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf] selftests/bpf: make directory prerequisites order-only

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:49:10 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        gor@...ux.ibm.com, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] selftests/bpf: make directory prerequisites order-only

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 3:22 PM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:
>
> On 7/12/19 3:56 PM, Ilya Leoshkevich wrote:
> > When directories are used as prerequisites in Makefiles, they can cause
> > a lot of unnecessary rebuilds, because a directory is considered changed
> > whenever a file in this directory is added, removed or modified.
> >
> > If the only thing a target is interested in is the existence of the
> > directory it depends on, which is the case for selftests/bpf, this
> > directory should be specified as an order-only prerequisite: it would
> > still be created in case it does not exist, but it would not trigger a
> > rebuild of a target in case it's considered changed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>
>
> Applied, thanks!

Hi Ilya,

this commit breaks map_tests.
To reproduce:
rm map_tests/tests.h
make
tests.h will not be regenerated.
Please provide a fix asap.
We cannot ship bpf tree with such failure.