Re: [PATCH v4 07/11] kbuild: use 'include' directive to load auto.conf from top Makefile

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Wed Sep 05 2018 - 20:47:00 EST


2018-09-06 7:53 GMT+09:00 Segher Boessenkool <segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 12:00:21PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 06:54:12PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> > You are right - I missed this usecase,
>> > but I still want to excuse "it is rare enough".
>>
>> Isn't there a Makefile way to check file existence before including it?
>
> Sure there is, you can use $(wildcard ) .


If you work around it by $(wildcard ),
we need something else that terminates building
in case auto.conf is really missing.


I do not want to revert

commit 2063945fdc3d4c0ac8f9319d942eda720d02aabe
Author: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jul 20 16:46:36 2018 +0900

kbuild: remove auto.conf from prerequisite of phony targets





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Masahiro Yamada