Re: No progress output when make 4.4.1 builds Linux 4.19 and earlier

On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:13:45PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:

After upgrading to make v4.4.1 (released last week), there's no longer any progress output from builds of the Linux kernel v4.19 and earlier. It seems the actual build still works, but it's now silent except for warnings and errors.

It bisects to the following 'make' commit:

commit dc2d963989b96161472b2cd38cef5d1f4851ea34
Author: Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov@users.sf.net>
Date:   Sun Nov 27 14:09:17 2022 -0500

    [SV 63347] Always add command line variable assignments to MAKEFLAGS

Is this an intentional breakage from the 'make' side?

Ah, thanks for figuring this out, it's been bugging me locally for a bit as well! The fact that kernels 5.4 and newer imply to me that there is a kernel build fix that should resolve this if someone can take the time to bisect it...

thanks,

greg k-h