On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 3:22 PM Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> wrote:
>
> On 7/12/19 3:56 PM, Ilya Leoshkevich wrote:
> > When directories are used as prerequisites in Makefiles, they can cause
> > a lot of unnecessary rebuilds, because a directory is considered changed
> > whenever a file in this directory is added, removed or modified.
> >
> > If the only thing a target is interested in is the existence of the
> > directory it depends on, which is the case for selftests/bpf, this
> > directory should be specified as an order-only prerequisite: it would
> > still be created in case it does not exist, but it would not trigger a
> > rebuild of a target in case it's considered changed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <i...@linux.ibm.com>
>
> Applied, thanks!

Hi Ilya,

this commit breaks map_tests.
To reproduce:
rm map_tests/tests.h
make
tests.h will not be regenerated.
Please provide a fix asap.
We cannot ship bpf tree with such failure.

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