build system: fix for coarse mtime problem

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
index f56863f7c..b5708e2e4 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
@@ -17,11 +17,28 @@ menuconfig: $(obj)/mconf
 config: $(obj)/conf
         $< Config.in
 
+# Mtime granularity problem.
+# It was observed that these commands:
+# make allnoconfig; sed -i -e '/CONFIG_TRUE/s/.*/CONFIG_TRUE=y/' .config; make
+# sometimes produce busybox with "true" applet still disabled.
+# This is caused by .config updated by sed having mtime which is still
+# equal to (not bigger than) include/autoconf.h's mtime,
+# and thus 2nd make does not regenerate include/autoconf.h.
+# Waiting for 1 second after non-interactive "make XXXXconfig"
+# prevents this from happening.
+#
+# We'd like to detect whether filesystem we are on has coarse mtimes,
+# but can't do it yet, bbox ls hasn't got --full-time.
+#MTIME_IS_COARSE:=@ls --full-time -ld | grep -F .000 >/dev/null
+MTIME_IS_COARSE:=@true
+
 oldconfig: $(obj)/conf
         $< -o Config.in
+        $(MTIME_IS_COARSE) && sleep 1
 
 silentoldconfig: $(obj)/conf
         $< -s Config.in
+        $(MTIME_IS_COARSE) && sleep 1
 
 update-po-config: $(obj)/kxgettext
         xgettext --default-domain=linux \
@@ -46,15 +63,19 @@ PHONY += randconfig allyesconfig allnoconfig allmodconfig defconfig
 
 randconfig: $(obj)/conf
         $< -r Config.in
+        $(MTIME_IS_COARSE) && sleep 1
 
 allyesconfig: $(obj)/conf
         $< -y Config.in
+        $(MTIME_IS_COARSE) && sleep 1
 
 allnoconfig: $(obj)/conf
         $< -n Config.in
+        $(MTIME_IS_COARSE) && sleep 1
 
 allmodconfig: $(obj)/conf
         $< -m Config.in
+        $(MTIME_IS_COARSE) && sleep 1
 
 defconfig: $(obj)/conf
 ifeq ($(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG),)
@@ -63,9 +84,11 @@ else
         @echo *** Default configuration is based on '$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)'
         $(Q)$< -D $(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG) Config.in
 endif
+        $(MTIME_IS_COARSE) && sleep 1
 
 %_defconfig: $(obj)/conf
         $(Q)$< -D $@ Config.in
+        $(MTIME_IS_COARSE) && sleep 1
 
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