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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/27] perf tools: Add automated make test suite
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 23:09:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130401210947.GC20670@krava.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130401195318.GB5744@merkur.ravnborg.org>

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 09:53:18PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

SNIP

> > +
> > +MAKE_DEBUG          := DEBUG=1
> > +MAKE_NO_LIBPERL     := NO_LIBPERL=1
> 
> Why all these ugly UPPERCASE names?
> In kbuild files the unwritten rule is that variables
> with global scope are upper-case.
> And variables with local scope are lower case.
> 
> You can find many examples where this is not followed - but this
> is the general approach.

ok, for some reason I'm used to use capitals for makefile
variables ;)


> 
> > +MAKE_MINIMAL        := NO_LIBPERL=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_NEWT=1 NO_GTK2=1 NO_DEMANGLE=1 NO_LIBELF=1 NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_BACKTRACE=1 NO_LIBNUMA=1 NO_LIBAUDIT=1 NO_LIBBIONIC=1
> 
> Keeping lines less than 120 chars long is good.
> Some people swer to 80 chars.

ok

> 
> > +RUN := \
> > +	MAKE_PURE \
> > +	MAKE_DEBUG \
> > +	MAKE_NO_LIBPERL \
> 
> RUN += MAKE_PURE
> RUN += MAKE_DEBUG
> RUN += MAKE_NO_LIBPERL
> 
> Is so much more readable.
> As a general rule - use \
> to continue lines only when you really have to.

ok

thanks,
jirka

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-01 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-01 19:18 [RFC 00/27] perf tools: Build changes and kbuild support Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 01/27] perf tools: Add automated make test suite Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:53   ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-04-01 21:09     ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 02/27] perf tools: Fix tab vs spaces issue in Makefile ifdef/endif Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:49   ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-04-01 21:11     ` Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 03/27] perf tools: Move arch check into config/Makefile Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:54   ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-04-01 21:07     ` Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 21:54   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-04-01 22:00     ` Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 04/27] perf tools: Move programs " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 22:09   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-04-01 22:27     ` Jiri Olsa
2013-04-02  3:59       ` Namhyung Kim
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 05/27] perf tools: Move compiler and linker flags " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 22:20   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-04-01 23:06     ` Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 06/27] perf tools: Move libelf check config " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 07/27] perf tools: Move libdw " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 08/27] perf tools: Move libunwind " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 09/27] perf tools: Move libaudit " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 10/27] perf tools: Move slang " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 11/27] perf tools: Move gtk2 " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 12/27] perf tools: Move libperl " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 13/27] perf tools: Move libpython " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 14/27] perf tools: Move libbfd " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 15/27] perf tools: Move stdlib " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 16/27] perf tools: Move libnuma " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 17/27] perf tools: Move paths " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 18/27] perf tools: Final touches for CHK config move Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 19/27] perf tools: Merge all *CFLAGS* make variable into CFLAGS Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 20/27] perf tools: Merge all *LDFLAGS* make variable into LDFLAGS Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 21/27] perf tools: Switch to full patch C include directories Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 22/27] perf tools: Add NO_BIONIC variable to confiure bionic setup Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 23/27] kbuild: Introduce KBUILD_AUTOCONF variable for auto.conf include Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 24/27] kbuild: Introduce KCONFIG_AUTOCONFIGDEP variable for conf tool Jiri Olsa
2013-04-11 10:29   ` Michal Marek
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 25/27] perf tools: Kbuild builtin source related fixies Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 26/27] perf tools: Kbuild " Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 19:18 ` [PATCH 27/27] perf tools: Add kbuild support into Makefile.kbuild Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 20:03   ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-04-01 21:05     ` Jiri Olsa
2013-04-01 20:45 ` [RFC 00/27] perf tools: Build changes and kbuild support David Ahern
2013-04-01 21:18   ` Jiri Olsa

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