RE: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: add -MP to CFLAGS

[David Laight]

From: David Woodhouse
> Sent: 30 October 2023 09:46
> 
> On Sun, 2023-10-29 at 21:13 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > From: David Woodhouse
> > > Sent: 28 October 2023 20:35
> > >
> > > Using -MD without -MP causes build failures when a header file is deleted
> > > or moved. With -MP, the compiler will emit phony targets for the header
> > > files it lists as dependencies, and the Makefiles won't refuse to attempt
> > > to rebuild a C unit which no longer includes the deleted header.
> >
> > Won't a phony target stop a header being built if there is
> > an actual rule to build it?
> 
> It probably would have taken you about the same time to find the answer
> for yourself, as it took to write that email. Why don't you try it?

I was sure that just adding

foo.h:

would generate a 'no rules to build' error.
Maybe that was BSD make or SYS-V make.

But calling the 'phony' is probably wrong.
PHONY has a very specific meaning to make - and these aren't PHONY.

	David

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