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

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Message-ID: <CAEf4BzYt9Hstc91ZbC0JtYTPYGivn-1ikfiAriFuJckef6Sdug@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:39:35 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        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 Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:49 AM Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

This change just exposed existing problem with Makefile. Sent out fix.

> 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.