Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Add back TAGS/ctags/cscope rules

[Greg Kurz]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 18:04:59 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 01/09/20 16:59, Connor Kuehl wrote:
> > On 9/1/20 9:20 AM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> >> It is a bit of a pain to be forced to run configure before being able
> >> to use cscope and friends. Add back the rules to build them in-tree
> >> as before commit a56650518f5b.
> >>
> >> Fixes: a56650518f5b ("configure: integrate Meson in the build system")
> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > 
> > This might be a user error on my part, but the way I read this it sounds
> > like I could do this:
> > 
> >     $ rm -rf build
> >     $ make cscope
> > 
> > and have it emit a cscope file,  but when I do so it complains about the
> > build dir not existing. As I understand it, running ./configure (or
> > meson build) is what generates that build dir. Here's the error for
> > posterity:
> > 
> > changing dir to build for make "cscope"...
> > make[1]: *** build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
> > make: *** [GNUmakefile:11: cscope] Error 2
> 
> You have a stray GNUmakefile in your source directory.  It's not
> introduced by Greg's patch.
> 
> I suggest that you remove the GNUmakefile and just use out-of-tree builds.
> 
> > [...]
> > Since this recipe doesn't output an artifact called "cscope" I wonder if
> > this should be:
> > 
> > .PHONY: cscope
> > cscope:
> >     ...
> > 
> > or alternatively:
> > 
> > cscope.out:
> >     ...
> 
> Yes it should be phony.  I have adjusted the patch and queued it.
> 

FWIW, as said in another mail, it is phony somewhere else in the makefile.

> Paolo
>