[PATCH] kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Thu May 05 2016 - 03:44:47 EST


Currently, arg-check is implemented as follows:

arg-check = $(strip $(filter-out $(cmd_$(1)), $(cmd_$@)) \
$(filter-out $(cmd_$@), $(cmd_$(1))) )

This does not care about the order of arguments that appear in
$(cmd_$(1)) and $(cmd_$@). So, if_changed and friends never rebuild
the target if only the argument order is changed. This is a problem
when the link order is changed.

Apparently,

obj-y += foo.o
obj-y += bar.o

and

obj-y += bar.o
obj-y += foo.o

should be distinguished because the link order determines the probe
order of drivers. So, built-in.o should be rebuilt if the order of
objects is changed.

This commit fixes arg-check to compare two strings as a whole.
$(strip ...) is important because we want to ignore the difference
that comes from white-spaces.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

scripts/Kbuild.include | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include
index b2ab2a9..2d03480 100644
--- a/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ objectify = $(foreach o,$(1),$(if $(filter /%,$(o)),$(o),$(obj)/$(o)))
ifneq ($(KBUILD_NOCMDDEP),1)
# Check if both arguments has same arguments. Result is empty string if equal.
# User may override this check using make KBUILD_NOCMDDEP=1
-arg-check = $(strip $(filter-out $(cmd_$(1)), $(cmd_$@)) \
- $(filter-out $(cmd_$@), $(cmd_$(1))) )
+arg-check = $(filter-out $(quote)$(strip $(cmd_$1))$(quote), \
+ $(quote)$(strip $(cmd_$@))$(quote))
else
arg-check = $(if $(strip $(cmd_$@)),,1)
endif
--
1.9.1