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Masahiro Yamada 54b8ae66ae kbuild: change *FLAGS_<basetarget>.o to take the path relative to $(obj)
Kbuild provides per-file compiler flag addition/removal:

  CFLAGS_<basetarget>.o
  CFLAGS_REMOVE_<basetarget>.o
  AFLAGS_<basetarget>.o
  AFLAGS_REMOVE_<basetarget>.o
  CPPFLAGS_<basetarget>.lds
  HOSTCFLAGS_<basetarget>.o
  HOSTCXXFLAGS_<basetarget>.o

The <basetarget> is the filename of the target with its directory and
suffix stripped.

This syntax comes into a trouble when two files with the same basename
appear in one Makefile, for example:

  obj-y += foo.o
  obj-y += dir/foo.o
  CFLAGS_foo.o := <some-flags>

Here, the <some-flags> applies to both foo.o and dir/foo.o

The real world problem is:

  scripts/kconfig/util.c
  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c

Both files are compiled into scripts/kconfig/mconf, but only the
latter should be given with the ncurses flags.

It is more sensible to use the relative path to the Makefile, like this:

  obj-y += foo.o
  CFLAGS_foo.o := <some-flags>
  obj-y += dir/foo.o
  CFLAGS_dir/foo.o := <other-flags>

At first, I attempted to replace $(basetarget) with $*. The $* variable
is replaced with the stem ('%') part in a pattern rule. This works with
most of cases, but does not for explicit rules.

For example, arch/ia64/lib/Makefile reuses rule_as_o_S in its own
explicit rules, so $* will be empty, resulting in ignoring the per-file
AFLAGS.

I introduced a new variable, target-stem, which can be used also from
explicit rules.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2019-09-04 23:12:50 +09:00
Documentation kbuild: remove ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGS 2019-09-04 10:01:17 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch kbuild: change *FLAGS_<basetarget>.o to take the path relative to $(obj) 2019-09-04 23:12:50 +09:00
block block, bfq: handle NULL return value by bfq_init_rq() 2019-08-08 07:31:50 -06:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto USB / PHY patches for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-11 15:40:06 -07:00
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fs dax fixes v5.3-rc4 2019-08-11 13:15:10 -07:00
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init kbuild,arc: add CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 for ARC 2019-09-04 10:01:17 +09:00
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net net: dsa: sja1105: Fix memory leak on meta state machine error path 2019-08-06 14:37:02 -07:00
samples treewide: remove SPDX "WITH Linux-syscall-note" from kernel-space headers again 2019-07-25 11:05:10 +02:00
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virt KVM/arm fixes for 5.3, take #2 2019-08-09 16:53:50 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS Char/misc fixes for 5.3-rc4 2019-08-10 12:24:20 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with bash-extension 2019-09-04 22:54:13 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.