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kbuild: add comment about grouped target

Message ID 20200325031630.28512-1-masahiroy@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series kbuild: add comment about grouped target | expand

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Masahiro Yamada March 25, 2020, 3:16 a.m. UTC
GNU Make commit 8c888d95f618 ("[SV 8297] Implement "grouped targets"
for explicit rules.") added the '&:' syntax.

I think '&:' is a perfect fit here, but we cannot use it any time
soon. Just add a TODO comment.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 593d8f1bbe90..4fd51f045440 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -674,6 +674,7 @@  $(KCONFIG_CONFIG):
 #
 # This exploits the 'multi-target pattern rule' trick.
 # The syncconfig should be executed only once to make all the targets.
+# (Note: use the grouped target '&:' when we bump to GNU Make 4.3)
 %/auto.conf %/auto.conf.cmd: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG)
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile syncconfig
 else # !may-sync-config