kbuild: unexport sub_make_done to fix child make invocations

The exported sub_make_done variable leaks into the environment of all
child processes. When make targets like tcheck spawn independent make
invocations with O=, those child makes inherit sub_make_done=1, skip
the KBUILD_OUTPUT setup and try to build in the source tree.

There is a workaround that resets sub_make_done to 0 for specific test
targets, but this isn't great since it has tolist every target that
spawns independent make invocations.

Instead, unexport sub_make_done once we are in the final make
invocation. The direct sub-make already has the value in its
environment from the export, and no further propagation is needed.
This also allows the per-target workaround to be removed.

Fixes: 27529f1cb02d ("kbuild: skip parsing pre sub-make code for recursion")
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <simon.glass@canonical.com>
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Simon Glass 2026-02-13 19:47:34 -07:00 committed by Tom Rini
parent 8353239dab
commit 4284306d22

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@ -194,6 +194,10 @@ endif # sub_make_done
# We process the rest of the Makefile if this is the final invocation of make
ifeq ($(need-sub-make),)
# Do not propagate sub_make_done to non-submake children (e.g. test scripts
# that invoke make separately with O= need to process the KBUILD_OUTPUT block)
unexport sub_make_done
# Do not print "Entering directory ...",
# but we want to display it when entering to the output directory
# so that IDEs/editors are able to understand relative filenames.
@ -2737,10 +2741,6 @@ help:
@echo 'Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with [*] '
@echo 'For further info see the ./README file'
ifneq ($(filter tests pcheck qcheck tcheck,$(MAKECMDGOALS)),)
export sub_make_done := 0
endif
tests check:
$(srctree)/test/run