Re: [PATCH 2/6] kbuild: uapi: only update hdrtest output on success

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Aug 12 2025 - 20:30:19 EST


On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM Thomas Weißschuh
<thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If a header test fails, the output should not be updated.
> Otherwise the next make invocation will not rerun the test.
>
> Also headers_check.pl should only run if the syntax check invocation
> before succeeded.
>
> Add explicit sequencening.

Did you test this?

See scripts/Kbuild.include line 153

The macro 'cmd' has "set -e".

Any single error in a series of commands
bails out.



>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> usr/include/Makefile | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/usr/include/Makefile b/usr/include/Makefile
> index c7f164952b33acf6c7b8eb7ce91cd192bfc39ad2..6868d183f36d532cd3d4023b936c67b8a58a9ba5 100644
> --- a/usr/include/Makefile
> +++ b/usr/include/Makefile
> @@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ always-y := $(patsubst $(obj)/%.h,%.hdrtest, $(shell find $(obj) -name '*.h' 2>/
> quiet_cmd_hdrtest = HDRTEST $<
> cmd_hdrtest = \
> $(CC) $(c_flags) -fsyntax-only -x c /dev/null \
> - $(if $(filter-out $(no-header-test), $*.h), -include $< -include $<); \
> - $(PERL) $(src)/headers_check.pl $(obj) $<; \
> + $(if $(filter-out $(no-header-test), $*.h), -include $< -include $<) && \
> + $(PERL) $(src)/headers_check.pl $(obj) $< && \
> touch $@
>
> $(obj)/%.hdrtest: $(obj)/%.h $(src)/headers_check.pl FORCE
>
> --
> 2.50.1
>
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada