From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stubdom: disable parallel build
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 14:18:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120801121831.GA24090@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343820387.27221.66.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On Wed, Aug 01, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 13:50 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > I suspect something is not quite right in the top level Makefile WRT the
> > > dependencies between tools and stubdom builds.
> >
> > Doing a s@$(CROSS_MAKE)@$(MAKE) DESTDIR=@g in stubdom/Makefile fixes it
> > for me:
>
> Can anyone who understands Make explain why this should make a
> difference?
>
> I would have expected that
> FOO := $(BAR) baz
> ...
> $(FOO) bif
> ought to be identical to
> $(BAR) baz bif
>
> Is that not the case?
MAKE is handled special if written in a receipe:
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/MAKE-Variable.html
That does not really explain why it makes a difference in the case of
stubdom.
Olaf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-01 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-30 16:35 [PATCH] stubdom: disable parallel build Olaf Hering
2012-07-31 8:28 ` Ian Campbell
2012-07-31 8:44 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-31 8:50 ` Ian Campbell
2012-07-31 9:06 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-31 9:17 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-31 12:50 ` Olaf Hering
2012-08-01 11:26 ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-01 12:18 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
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