[coreboot] v3: missing dependencies

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 01.03.2008 19:52, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> I finally found out why building one target, running menuconfig to 
> change the target and recompiling fails unless you make clean in between:
> statictree.c and statictree.h are missing dependencies on .config or its 
> derivatives. Ouch. That's not totally bad for statictree.c because it 
> sits next to the dts, but for statictree.h.
> So if you configure for qemu, compile, reconfigure for alix1c, compile 
> again, make thinks statictree.h is not stale because it is newer than 
> the alix1c dts. Boom.
>
> Two possible fixes:
> - move statictree.h to the mainboard dir next to statictree.c.
> - have statictree.h depend on .config or derivatives.
>
> I like the first option a lot better.
>   

Actually, we may need both.

There is another related dependency bug in our makefiles: Copying a 
.config in place is not sufficient to run make. It still needs "make 
oldconfig" or any other "make *config".

> Opinions?
>   

Regards,

Carl-Daniel

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