Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docker: Don't use eval trick on Makefile

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 06/07 15:30, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 7 June 2016 at 15:00, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On 7 June 2016 at 04:24, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 06/06 12:53, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >>> The eval trick for defining DOCKER_SRC_COPY doesn't do anything
> >>> useful, as DOCKER_SRC_COPY is immediately expanded just after it
> >>> is defined, and CUR_TIME is already defined using ":=". Simply
> >>> define it using ":=" so it is evaluated only once.
> >>>
> >>> The eval trick was also triggering an weird error on Travis builds:
> >>>   qemu/tests/docker/Makefile.include:34: *** unterminated variable reference.  Stop.
> >>>
> >>> The issue is not easily reproducible (maybe it's a bug in some
> >>> versions of Make), but it is avoided if removing the eval trick.
> 
> > Hi; I'd like to apply this direct to master, because one of my build
> > test machines hits this error intermittently, and so without the fix
> > I can't reliably process any other pull requests.
> 
> Now applied, thanks.

No problem, sorry for the trouble!

Fam