[PATCH] ARM: decompressor: do not copy source files while building

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 9:07 PM Russell King (Oracle)
<linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 02:52:58AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > As commit 7ae4a78daacf ("ARM: 8969/1: decompressor: simplify libfdt
> > builds") stated, copying source files during the build time may not
> > end up with as clean code as expected.
> >
> > Do similar for the other library files for further cleanups of the
> > Makefile and .gitignore.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am now seeing the following every time I run a build:
>
>   GEN     Makefile
>   CALL    .../linux-rmk/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
>   CALL    .../linux-rmk/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>   CHK     include/generated/compile.h
>   Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
>   AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/lib1funcs.o
>   AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/ashldi3.o
>   AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/bswapsdi2.o
>   LD      arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux
>   OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/zImage
>   Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
>
> In other words, those three objects are always rebuilt even though
> they haven't changed.
>
> I've tried removing the arch/arm/boot/compressed directory in the
> build tree, but that doesn't make any difference.
>
> Running with V=2 shows:
>
>   AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/lib1funcs.o - due to lib1funcs.o not in $(tar
> gets)
>   AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/ashldi3.o - due to ashldi3.o not in $(targets)
>   AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/bswapsdi2.o - due to bswapsdi2.o not in $(targets)
>
> It looks to me like:
> OBJS    += lib1funcs.o ashldi3.o bswapsdi2.o
>
> in your patch should have been added before:
>
> targets       := vmlinux vmlinux.lds piggy_data piggy.o \
>                  head.o $(OBJS)
>
> Please confirm.


Sorry for my late reply.

Yes, you are right.

OBJS    += lib1funcs.o ashldi3.o bswapsdi2.o

should come before the 'targets' assignment.





-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada