With CONFIG_TOOLS_BUILD set, make "all" depend on tools_build, so the selected tools are built with every kernel build, and allmodconfig and allyesconfig builds catch changes that break them.
"make vmlinux", "make modules", single target and external module builds are unaffected. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> --- Makefile | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index af5d0a9d51df9..1c55086ea5c8b 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1638,6 +1638,10 @@ PHONY += tools_build tools_build: headers $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/tools/Makefile.kbuild +ifdef CONFIG_TOOLS_BUILD +all: tools_build +endif + # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Kernel selftest -- 2.53.0
