The .test.d dependency files are generated by the C preprocessor and list the headers each test file actually #includes. Skeleton headers appear in those generated lists, so the .test.o -> .skel.h dependency is already tracked by the .d file content.
Making skeletons order-only prerequisites of .test.d means that a missing or skipped skeleton does not prevent .test.d generation, and regenerating a skeleton does not force .test.d to be recreated. This avoids unnecessary recompilation and, more importantly, avoids build errors when a skeleton was intentionally skipped due to a BPF compilation failure. Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marlière <[email protected]> --- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile index 7d1e5d6c30ec..b3eaa4a93707 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile @@ -717,11 +717,11 @@ $(TRUNNER_TEST_OBJS): $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT)/%.test.o: \ $(TRUNNER_TEST_OBJS:.o=.d): $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT)/%.test.d: \ $(TRUNNER_TESTS_DIR)/%.c \ $(TRUNNER_EXTRA_HDRS) \ + $$(BPFOBJ) | $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT) \ $(TRUNNER_BPF_SKELS) \ $(TRUNNER_BPF_LSKELS) \ $(TRUNNER_BPF_LSKELS_SIGNED) \ - $(TRUNNER_BPF_SKELS_LINKED) \ - $$(BPFOBJ) | $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT) + $(TRUNNER_BPF_SKELS_LINKED) ifeq ($(filter clean docs-clean emit_tests,$(MAKECMDGOALS)),) include $(wildcard $(TRUNNER_TEST_OBJS:.o=.d)) -- 2.53.0
