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    kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order · 9c8fa9bc
    Masahiro Yamada authored
    
    
    Currently, arg-check is implemented as follows:
    
      arg-check = $(strip $(filter-out $(cmd_$(1)), $(cmd_$@)) \
                          $(filter-out $(cmd_$@),   $(cmd_$(1))) )
    
    This does not care about the order of arguments that appear in
    $(cmd_$(1)) and $(cmd_$@).  So, if_changed and friends never rebuild
    the target if only the argument order is changed.  This is a problem
    when the link order is changed.
    
    Apparently,
    
      obj-y += foo.o
      obj-y += bar.o
    
    and
    
      obj-y += bar.o
      obj-y += foo.o
    
    should be distinguished because the link order determines the probe
    order of drivers.  So, built-in.o should be rebuilt when the order
    of objects is changed.
    
    This commit fixes arg-check to compare the old/current commands
    including the argument order.
    
    Of course, this change has a side effect; Kbuild will react to the
    change of compile option order.  For example, "-DFOO -DBAR" and
    "-DBAR -DFOO" should give no difference to the build result, but
    false positive should be better than false negative.
    
    I am moving space_escape to the top of Kbuild.include just for a
    matter of preference.  In practical terms, space_escape can be
    defined after arg-check because arg-check uses "=" flavor, not ":=".
    Having said that, collecting convenient variables in one place makes
    sense from the point of readability.
    
    Chaining "%%%SPACE%%%" to "_-_SPACE_-_" is also a matter of taste
    at this point.  Actually, it can be arbitrary as long as it is an
    unlikely used string.  The only problem I see in "%%%SPACE%%%" is
    that "%" is a special character in "$(patsubst ...)" context.  This
    commit just uses "$(subst ...)" for arg-check, but I am fixing it now
    in case we might want to use it in $(patsubst ...) context in the
    future.
    
    Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada's avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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