The original commit wasn't quite sufficient: Emptying DEPS is helpful only when nothing will get added to it subsequently. xen/Rules.mk will, after including the local Makefile, amend DEPS by dependencies for objects living in sub-directories though. For the purpose of suppressing dependencies of the makefiles on the .*.d2 files (and thus to avoid their re-generation) it is, however, not necessary at all to play with DEPS. Instead we can override DEPS_INCLUDE (which generally is a late- expansion variable).
Fixes: 761bb575ce97 ("x86: fix build race when generating temporary object files") Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> --- a/xen/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/xen/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -314,5 +314,5 @@ clean:: # Suppress loading of DEPS files for internal, temporary target files. This # then also suppresses re-generation of the respective .*.d2 files. ifeq ($(filter-out .xen%.o,$(notdir $(MAKECMDGOALS))),) -DEPS:= +DEPS_INCLUDE:= endif