Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix tags target rebuilding

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:31:08PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Once the tags file is generated it's never rebuilt
> > until it's removed by hand.
> > 
> > The reason is that the Makefile does not treat tags
> > as a target but as a file to be rebuilt.
> > 
> > Adding tags as PHONY target into the Makefile.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> > Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> > Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/Makefile | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
> > index 4835618..95f5792 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/Makefile
> > +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
> > @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ endef
> >  #
> >  # Needed if no target specified:
> >  #
> > -all:
> > +all tags:
> 
> Obviously the change invalidates the comment above.

ugh, haven't noticed that comment ;-)

> 
> >  	$(print_msg)
> >  	$(make)
> >  
> > @@ -77,3 +77,5 @@ clean:
> >  %:
> >  	$(print_msg)
> >  	$(make)
> > +
> > +.PHONY: tags
> 
> Note that there's also a TAGS file that uses etags - which probably 
> needs similar treatment.

yes

> 
> Also note that we have duplicate code for this in Makefile.perf 
> already. Would it be possible to pass through this there and keep the 
> main Makefile is just a thin, minimal wrapper that adds default 
> parallelism, etc?

well, thats what I actually tried to do.. pass the
processing to the Makefile.perf otherwise it stops
in Makefile

I guess you want some generic way of doing that

jirka