[Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: fix incremental parallel build

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

Short-circuit absolute paths of generated headers to their pathless
equivalents, to avoid two racing invocations of the same rule producing
them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
---
This wants to be backported to 4.9 and 4.8.

--- a/tools/libxl/Makefile
+++ b/tools/libxl/Makefile
@@ -264,6 +264,13 @@ $(LIBXL_OBJS) $(LIBXL_TEST_OBJS) $(LIBXL
        $(TEST_PROG_OBJS) $(SAVE_HELPER_OBJS): libxl.h
 $(LIBXL_OBJS) $(LIBXL_TEST_OBJS): libxl_internal.h
 
+# libacpi sources (living in another subdirectory) will have their inclusions
+# of headers from this directory recorded as absolute paths in the .*.o.d
+# files.  In order to not invoke the subsequent rule twice (and perhaps in a
+# racing way when doing a parallel build), short-circuit the absolute paths to
+# the local ones first.
+$(CURDIR)/_libxl_type%.h: _libxl_type%.h ;
+
 _libxl_type%.h _libxl_type%_json.h _libxl_type%_private.h _libxl_type%.c: 
libxl_type%.idl gentypes.py idl.py
        $(eval stem = $(notdir $*))
        $(PYTHON) gentypes.py libxl_type$(stem).idl __libxl_type$(stem).h 
__libxl_type$(stem)_private.h \




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