[CRIU] [PATCH 0/2] Makefiles: fix deps checking

[Dmitry Safonov]

2017-01-08 2:52 GMT+03:00 Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org>:
> A big problem with using sub-makes is the dependency information
> is only available to a sub-make, so if we want deps to be checked
> when we run make (a natural thing to do, isn't it?), we need to
> call all the sub-makes unconditionally.
>
> I am not sure if a better alternative exist.

There is alternative, but it's not an easy-fix: Non-recursive-make.
Started with article "Recursive Make Considered Harmful",
which describes all these problems:
http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov at virtuozzo.com>

>
> PS there is the same problem with lib/c/* but I was not able to fix it
> in such a simple way as these two cases, so "leaving it as an exercise
> to the reader".
>
> Kir Kolyshkin (2):
>   criu/Makefile: fix rebuilding criu/pie/pie.lib.a
>   criu/Makefile: fix criu/arch/* rebuild
>
>  criu/Makefile | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>

-- 
             Dmitry