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Yann E. MORIN 3f6a40e9fa linux: workaround make-4.1 bug
On Ubuntu 18.04, make-4.1 emits spurious, incorrect "entering/leaving"
messages, which end up in the LINUX_VERSION_PROBED variable:

    printf 'probed linux version: "%s"\n' "$(LINUX_VERSION_PROBED)"
    probed linux version: "make[1]: Entering directory '/home/buildroot'
    4.19.78-linux4sam-6.2
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/buildroot/output/build/linux-linux4sam_6.2'"

First, the messages are displayed even though we do explicitly pass
--no-print-directory -s.

Second, the entering and leaving messages are not about the same
directory!

This *only* occurs in the following conditions:

  - the user has the correct 0022 umask,
  - top-level parallel is used (with or without PPD),
  - initial -C is specified as well.

    $ umask 0022
    $ make -j16 -C $(pwd)
    [...]
    depmod: ERROR: Bad version passed make[1]:
    [...]

(yes, 'make[1]:' is the string depmod is trying, and fails, to parse as
a version string).

If any of the three conditions above is removed, the problem no longer
occurs. Here's a table of the MAKEFLAGS:

                |                   0002                         |          0022            |
    ----+-------+------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
        | no-j  | --no-print-directory --                        |                          |
    noC |       +------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
        | -j16  | -j --jobserver-fds=3,4 --no-print-directory -- | -j --jobserver-fds=3,4   |
    ----+-------+------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
        | no-j  | --no-print-directory --                        | w                        |
    -C  |       +------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
        | -j16  | -j --jobserver-fds=3,4 --no-print-directory -- | w -j --jobserver-fds=3,4 |
    ----+-------+------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+

    0002: umask == 0002
    0022: umask == 0022

    no-j: no -j flag
    -j16: -j16 flag

    noC: no -C flag
    -C : -C /path/of/buildroot/

Only the bottom-right-most case fails...

This behaviour goes against what is documented:

    https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#g_t_002dw-Option

    5.7.4 The ‘--print-directory’ Option
    [...]
    you do not need to specify this option because ‘make’ does it for
    you: ‘-w’ is turned on automatically when you use the ‘-C’ option,
    and in sub-makes. make will not automatically turn on ‘-w’ if you
    also use ‘-s’, which says to be silent, or if you use
    ‘--no-print-directory’ to explicitly disable it.

So this exactly describes our situation; yet 'w' is added to MAKEFLAGS.

Getting rid of the 'w' flag makes the build succeed again, so that's
what we do here (bleark, icky)...

Furthermore, the documented way to override MAKEFLAGS is to do so as a
make parameter:

    https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Options_002fRecursion

    5.7.3 Communicating Options to a Sub-make
    [...]
    If you do not want to pass the other flags down, you must change the
    value of MAKEFLAGS, like this:

        subsystem:
            cd subdir && $(MAKE) MAKEFLAGS=

However, doing so does not fix the issue. So we resort to pass the
modified MAKEFLAGS via the environment (bleark, icky)...

Fixes: #13141

Reported-by: Laurent <laurent@neko-labs.eu>
Reported-by: Asaf Kahlon <asafka7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2020-08-28 22:09:52 +02:00
arch arch/Config.in: add BR2_ARCH_NEEDS_GCC_AT_LEAST_10 2020-06-24 21:57:43 +02:00
board configs/arcturus_ucls1012a: bump kernel to 4.14.140 and u-boot version to 2019.10 2020-08-12 16:41:06 +02:00
boot boot/optee-os: depend on host-python3 2020-08-09 00:13:41 +02:00
configs configs/qemu_*: bump kernel version to 5.4.58 2020-08-14 23:01:49 +02:00
docs docs/website/news.html: correct left/right ordering of 2020.08-rc2 entry 2020-08-24 16:58:59 +02:00
fs fs/cpio: generate reproducible archives 2020-06-29 17:57:12 +02:00
linux linux: workaround make-4.1 bug 2020-08-28 22:09:52 +02:00
package package/trousers: add upstream security fix 2020-08-28 19:53:26 +02:00
support support/scripts/pkg-stats: drop erroneous "break" in CVE.affects() 2020-08-27 18:04:33 +02:00
system system: replace nogroup with nobody 2020-07-18 14:18:33 +02:00
toolchain toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-amd64: remove package 2020-08-24 23:35:19 +02:00
utils utils/scanpypi: use raw strings in re.compile/re.sub 2020-08-14 21:56:17 +02:00
.defconfig arch: remove support for sh64 2016-09-08 22:15:15 +02:00
.flake8 .flake8: fix check for 80/132 columns 2019-04-10 12:31:33 +02:00
.gitignore update gitignore 2013-05-04 12:41:55 +02:00
.gitlab-ci.yml gitlab-ci: update the image version 2020-08-15 09:47:00 +02:00
CHANGES Update for 2020.08-rc2 2020-08-24 16:19:07 +02:00
Config.in Config.in: update BR2_OPTIMIZE_FAST prompt and help text 2020-07-18 16:05:01 +02:00
Config.in.legacy toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-amd64: remove package 2020-08-24 23:35:19 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: add exception about patch licensing 2016-02-26 19:50:13 +01:00
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS: add myself as contact for linuxptp+ipmitool 2020-08-27 23:12:25 +02:00
Makefile Update for 2020.08-rc2 2020-08-24 16:19:07 +02:00
Makefile.legacy Remove BR2_DEPRECATED 2016-10-15 23:14:45 +02:00
README README: add reference to submitting-patches 2016-02-01 19:16:08 +01:00

Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded
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The documentation can be found in docs/manual. You can generate a text
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