From: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Once the tags/TAGS file is generated it's never rebuilt until it's removed by hand.
The reason is that the Makefile does not treat tags/TAGS as targets but as files and thus won't rebuilt them once they are in place. Adding PHONY tags/TAGS targets into Makefile. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/Makefile | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile index 4835618a5608..eefb9fb0c02f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Makefile +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile @@ -60,8 +60,11 @@ endef # # Needed if no target specified: +# (Except for tags and TAGS targets. The reason is that the +# Makefile does not treat tags/TAGS as targets but as files +# and thus won't rebuilt them once they are in place.) # -all: +all tags TAGS: $(print_msg) $(make) @@ -77,3 +80,5 @@ clean: %: $(print_msg) $(make) + +.PHONY: tags TAGS -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

