I just put this at the very end of top makefile:
${MAKEFILE_LIST}: ;
Philip Guenther
On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 12:25 PM Torbjorn SVENSSON <
torbjorn.svens...@foss.st.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2023-07-16 15:58, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > Wow! That's a great help for debugging the Linux man-pages's makefiles,
> > which don't need to be remade. It was very painful to me to ignore so
> > much make -d output. I applied the following patch, and it works like
> > a charm.
> >
> > <
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=c98d237c22e9e898ae7d05e2222e7eac47791bd3
> >
>
> Why are you wasting time doing grep when you can have find return just
> those files that ends with .mk? Also, why need to sort the list when
> it's only for make to define a rule?
>
> I would have done something along these lines if I were in your shoes:
>
> MK := $(srcdir)/Makefile
> MK += $(shell $(FIND) $(MAKEFILEDIR) -type f -name '*.mk')
>
>
> Or, a more cleaner solution would have been to define the MK-array in
> the $(srcdir)/Makefile as you have it hard coded for the include
> statements now.
>
> MK := \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/check/_.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/check/catman.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/build/_.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/build/catman.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/build/html.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/build/pdf.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/build/pre.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/build/ps.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/build/src.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/dist.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/install/_.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/install/html.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/install/man.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/lint/_.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/lint/c.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/lint/man/_.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/lint/man/man.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/lint/man/mdoc.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/make.mk \
> $(MAKEFILEDIR)/verbose.mk
>
> include $(MK)
> $(srcdir)/Makefile $(MK):: ;
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Torbjörn
>
>
