From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752704AbZBCI2y (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 03:28:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750963AbZBCI2r (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 03:28:47 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:59266 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750857AbZBCI2q (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 03:28:46 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Pin1T0SV4wjmpWbt1x8jjWD3Rn7o7qw+elPJ/WELNJxXZqmbf4xI+camwCL65XnKzK fEj7F8/WJDa+vcDuqB8nHupXA8oFXHdW2Auf/kiCnPwAt8QIevIz4YJ7IV6yoIA2zTEn +Ww18jcdTr7V3IRT8Zju9Psgl0dj3le5dEfew= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:28:44 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: [kernel make system] adding pre-check scripts From: Victoria Muntean To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Is there provision in kernel makefiles to execute user-supplied pre/post add-on scripts ? (by following some convention) I have script pre-checks.sh, it checks that .config defines certain parameters certain way. This is to prevent [build with] accidental redefine of certain important parameters. One possibility is to ./my-pre-checks.sh && make But this is not perfect. It leaves of pre-checks optional easy to forget to run before build. Is it possible to make "make" execute my pre-script before build. Thanks V.M.