First, since this looks to be recurring: Please don't send HTML mails.

On 24.02.2026 10:38, Edwin Torok wrote:
> On 23 Feb 2026, at 16:37, Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23.02.2026 11:14, Edwin Török wrote:
> Introduce a new tools/tests/Rules.mk that must be included *last* in a
> Makefile, after TARGETS is defined.
> 
> Requiring inclusion after TARGETS is defined is certainly okay. Requiring it 
> to
> be included absolutely last is imo going too far. There surely are going to be
> cases where something wants overriding or adding to.
> 
> 
> I’ll change this so that the Makefile defines XEN_ROOT, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, 
> TARGETS, and then includes the file.
> 
> 
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/tests/Rules.mk
> @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
> +# Usage: include this last in your Makefile.
> +#
> +# For example:
> +#
> +# XEN_ROOT = $(CURDIR)/../../..
> +# include $(XEN_ROOT)/tools/Rules.mk
> +#
> +# TARGETS := ...
> +# ...
> +# include $(XEN_ROOT)/tools/tests/Rules.mk
> +
> +ifndef XEN_ROOT
> +$(error XEN_ROOT is not defined)
> +endif
> +
> +.PHONY: all
> +all: $(TARGETS)
> +.DEFAULT_GOAL: all
> 
> Make 3.80, which ./README still says we support, doesn't look to know this.
> 
> Do you know which (Linux) distribution and version would have Make 3.80 so I 
> can test my changes there?

Not without a lot of digging. Perhaps we simply want to bump the minimum 
version,
to "sync up" with what we did for binutils, gcc, and clang?

Jan

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