On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 10:21 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 03:06:37AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 09:48 +0200, Dirk Gouders wrote: > > > + # Check for multiple calls of if_changed within a target in > > > Makefiles > > > + if (($realfile =~ /Makefile.*/ || $realfile =~ /Kbuild.*/) && > > > > The uses of .* here are superfluous. > > And it looks like you wanted to match this only at the beginning of the > string, which would be /^Makefile/ etc.
Nope. $realfile includes path and /^Makefile/ matches only the top level Makefile and none of the ones in subdirectories.
