Re: [PATCHv2] perf tools: Fix tags/TAGS targets rebuilding

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 01:00:55PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:31:08PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> SNIP
> 
> > > > 
> > > > Also note that we have duplicate code for this in Makefile.perf 
> > > > already. Would it be possible to pass through this there and keep the 
> > > > main Makefile is just a thin, minimal wrapper that adds default 
> > > > parallelism, etc?
> > > 
> > > well, thats what I actually tried to do.. pass the
> > > processing to the Makefile.perf otherwise it stops
> > > in Makefile
> > > 
> > > I guess you want some generic way of doing that
> > 
> > If it's just these two phony targets that need to be in the main 
> > makefile then I guess your approach is the simplest one and we should 
> > do it like that instead of complicating the interface. If it gets 
> > messier in the future we can reconsider?
> > 
> 
> sounds good, pelase check v2
> 
> thanks,
> jirka
> 
> 
> ---
> 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 <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/perf/Makefile | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
> index 4835618..eefb9fb 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.)

s/rebuilt/rebuild

Btw., could we perhaps change the targets to 'ctags' and 'etags' 
instead? (That will make it natural to add 'gtags' in the future, 
should anyone want that.)

Thanks,

	Ingo
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