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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> | 2005-09-09 20:14:47 -0500 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> | 2005-09-09 20:14:47 -0500 |
| commit | d344c5e0856ad03278d8700b503762dbc8b86e12 (patch) | |
| tree | a6d893a643470a3c2580a58f3228a55fa1fd1d82 /Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | |
| parent | 010988e888a0abbe7118635c1b33d049caae6b29 (diff) | |
| parent | 87fc767b832ef5a681a0ff9d203c3289bc3be2bf (diff) | |
Manual merge with Linus
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 2616a58a5a4b..9a1586590d82 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -872,7 +872,13 @@ When kbuild executes the following steps are followed (roughly): Assignments to $(targets) are without $(obj)/ prefix. if_changed may be used in conjunction with custom commands as defined in 6.7 "Custom kbuild commands". + Note: It is a typical mistake to forget the FORCE prerequisite. + Another common pitfall is that whitespace is sometimes + significant; for instance, the below will fail (note the extra space + after the comma): + target: source(s) FORCE + #WRONG!# $(call if_changed, ld/objcopy/gzip) ld Link target. Often LDFLAGS_$@ is used to set specific options to ld. |