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

[Greg KH]

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