Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add CONFIG_QEMU_TIMER to handle qemu-timer-common.o dep

[Lluís <xscript@gmx.net>]

Lluís  writes:

> Michael Roth writes:
>> Hmm, looking again I'm confused why we need to do this in the first place...the
>> rule is:

>> LINK = $(call quiet-command,$(CC) $(QEMU_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o 
>> $@ $(1) $(LIBS),"  LINK  $(TARGET_DIR)$@")

>> %$(EXESUF): %.o
>> $(call LINK,$^)

>> According to the documentation $^ should remove duplicate dependencies, so I'm
>> not getting why we need to de-dupe them once they get passed to LINK:

>> http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#index-g_t_0024_005e-948

>> Is there some distinction between duplicate dependencies and duplicate words in
>> the dependency list?

> It does indeed work X'D

> I was blindly searching for words like "duplicate" and "repeat" in
> make's info page.

> I just now realized that in my case, the duplication error appeared only
> with targets defined in line 434 of Makefile.target.

> The fix is as trivial as using this link line:

>     $(call LINK,$^)


> Nice catch Michael, we got lost in the discussion :)


BTW, I think tis settles the issue with [1] being "The Right Thing" (TM) :)

The patch in [2] is exactly the same, but outside the tracing patch set.


[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-08/msg03150.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-08/msg02915.html


Lluis

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