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From: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
To: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mrubin@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH trace-cmd 3/3] Revert "trace-cmd: Use conditional assignment of CC and AR"
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:46:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7873B5.7090602@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=WRv2PekEyuEh5k9VOv9LmGCWa6KxXn0BeZVSk@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/09/2011 09:25 PM, David Sharp wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Steven Rostedt<rostedt@goodmis.org>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 21:51 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>
>>> I'll play with some other make tricks and see if I can come up with a
>>> better solution.
>>
>> OK, it didn't take me long to come up with "Makefiles suck" ;)
>
> Yes, except for very basic things.
>
>>
>> But I did come up with a solution:
>>
>> ifneq ("$(origin CC)", "environment")
>> CC = gcc
>> endif
>>
>> CC := $(CROSS_COMPILE)$(CC)
>>
>> This wont let make CC=xx work unless I also add a:
>>
>> ifneq ("$(origin CC)", "command line")
>>
>> around the above if, but do we care?
>>
>> -- Steve
>
> This seems to do it all:
>
> define allow-override
>    $(if $(or $(findstring environment,$(origin $(1))),
>              $(findstring command line,$(origin $(1)))),,\
>      $(eval $(1) = $(2)))
> endef
>
> $(call allow-override,CC,$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc)
> $(call allow-override,AR,$(CROSS_COMPILE)ar)

Egads .... that's hideous :-) This level of complexity makes it very 
difficult for people to readily understand it. What does this offer over:

ifdef CROSS_COMPILE
CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
AR = $(CROSS_COMPILE)ar
endif

besides being 3 lines longer with much more complex Makefile syntax and 
conditional statements?

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-09 23:58 [PATCH trace-cmd 1/3] parse-events: Add support for printing short fields David Sharp
2011-03-09 23:58 ` [PATCH trace-cmd 2/3] parse-events: support additional operators: '!', '~', and '!=' David Sharp
2011-03-09 23:58 ` [PATCH trace-cmd 3/3] Revert "trace-cmd: Use conditional assignment of CC and AR" David Sharp
2011-03-10  1:21   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10  1:28     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10  1:29       ` Darren Hart
2011-03-10  1:27   ` Darren Hart
2011-03-10  1:36     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10  1:58       ` Darren Hart
2011-03-10  2:27         ` David Sharp
2011-03-10  2:51           ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10  3:26             ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10  5:25               ` David Sharp
2011-03-10  6:46                 ` Darren Hart [this message]
2011-03-10 13:02                   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10  6:41               ` Darren Hart
2011-03-10 13:07                 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10  6:34             ` Darren Hart
2011-03-10  6:32           ` Darren Hart
2011-03-10  6:43           ` Darren Hart
2011-03-10 13:11             ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 17:50               ` Darren Hart
2011-03-10 18:11                 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 21:11                   ` [PATCH trace-cmd v2] trace-cmd: allow setting CC and AR, or CROSS_COMPILE from command line David Sharp
2011-03-10 21:30                     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10  2:42         ` [PATCH trace-cmd 3/3] Revert "trace-cmd: Use conditional assignment of CC and AR" Steven Rostedt

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