kbuild: remove the target in signal traps when interrupted
When receiving some signal, GNU Make automatically deletes the target if it has already been changed by the interrupted recipe. If the target is possibly incomplete due to interruption, it must be deleted so that it will be remade from scratch on the next run of make. Otherwise, the target would remain corrupted permanently because its timestamp had already been updated. Thanks to this behavior of Make, you can stop the build any time by pressing Ctrl-C, and just run 'make' to resume it. Kbuild also relies on this feature, but it is equivalently important for any build systems that make decisions based on timestamps (if you want to support Ctrl-C reliably). However, this does not always work as claimed; Make immediately dies with Ctrl-C if its stderr goes into a pipe. [Test Makefile] foo: echo hello > $@ sleep 3 echo world >> $@ [Test Result] $ make # hit Ctrl-C ec...
Please register or sign in to comment