From 4a5838ad9d2d4f7354a310982483f4c76aa0abeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:35:29 +0100 Subject: kbuild: Add extra gcc checks Add a 'W=1' Makefile switch which adds additional checking per build object. The idea behind this option is targeted at developers who, in the process of writing their code, want to do the occasional make W=1 [target.o] and let gcc do more extensive code checking for them. Then, they could eyeball the output for valid gcc warnings about various bugs/discrepancies which are not reported during the normal build process. For more background information and a use case, read through this thread: http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=129802065918147&w=2 Cc: Michal Marek Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Michal Marek --- Makefile | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Makefile') diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index abb49bf8596e..2b1e37da2bb5 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line") KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(O) endif +ifeq ("$(origin W)", "command line") + export KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS := 1 +endif + # That's our default target when none is given on the command line PHONY := _all _all: @@ -1262,6 +1266,7 @@ help: @echo ' make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in "dir", including .config' @echo ' make C=1 [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse by default)' @echo ' make C=2 [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK' + @echo ' make W=1 [targets] Enable extra gcc checks' @echo '' @echo 'Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with [*] ' @echo 'For further info see the ./README file' -- cgit v1.2.3