linux: Makes the -dev output reproducible #57100
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Motivation for this change
Makes the
-dev
output of the kernel reproducible.The (temporary) file has been spotted by r13y.com
This file is, in turn, generated by a poor cleanup under
try-run
from the Makefiles. The particular one is this one:It was found via using
strace
(and a good guess). The underlyingcc
call will callcc1
which will use-MD
with the filename modified to be*.d
, meaningtry-run
will not clean it up.The file name is different each run, and cannot be derived. Thus the patterned
rm
.Things done
sandbox
innix.conf
on non-NixOS)cc @grahamc