From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932791AbXGaQt0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:49:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764439AbXGaQtS (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:49:18 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:53239 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764034AbXGaQtS (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:49:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:31:36 +0530 (IST) From: Satyam Sharma X-X-Sender: satyam@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in To: David Woodhouse cc: Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make headers_check less chatty for success cases In-Reply-To: <1185899409.3083.122.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <1185899409.3083.122.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 22:10 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > "make headers_check" is too verbose. It likes to chat even if it has > > just _successfully_ checked a header, and not just on seeing errors. > > What is worse, even if you touch just one little header in some corner > > (or possibly none) and type "make" on an "already-made" tree, > > headers_check still feels obliged to check all the headers. > > Didn't Sam have a better fix for that? None that I see in kbuild.git, at least ... Anyway, now that I've silenced headers_check, I keep seeing: make[2]: `scripts/unifdef' is up to date. which is because of the: make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts scripts/unifdef (passed separately) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ from the top-level Makefile (scripts/Makefile says something about it being built only on demand ...)