Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Makefile: libfdt: build only the strict necessary

[Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>]

Hello all,

is this queued somewhere?

Thanks,

Claudio

On 5/18/20 6:03 PM, Claudio Fontana wrote:
> v4 -> v5:
> 
> * include the dtc submodule update commit in the 1/2 patch
> 
> v3 -> v4: NB! only useful when updating to latest dtc (not in QEMU yet)
> 
> * changed the approach to leverage new upstream dtc Makefile,
>   needs dtc submodule update to include upstream dtc commit
>   85e5d839847af54efab170f2b1331b2a6421e647.
> 
> * LIBFDT_srcdir does not exist anymore in upstream dtc: it is also
>   not used anymore.
> 
> * LIBFDT_lib: need to avoid building libfdt.so at least for now, so pass as
>   empty to avoid building the .so. This is to avoid breaking existing
>   trees with objects already compiled without -fPIC.
> 
> * clean: no need to make dtc clean target, every artifact is captured by
>   global clean rule
> 
> v2 -> v3:
> 
> * changed into a 2 patch series; in the second patch we remove the old
>   compatibility gunks that were meant for removal some time after 4.1.
> 
> * renamed the libfdt PHONY rule to dtc/all, with the intent to make
>   existing working trees forward and backward compatible across the change.
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> 
> * fix error generated when running UNCHECKED_GOALS without prior configure,
>   for example during make docker-image-fedora. Without configure, DSOSUF is
>   empty, and the module pattern rule in rules.mak that uses this variable
>   can match too much; provide a default in the Makefile to avoid it.
> 
> * only attempt to build the archive when there is a non-empty list of objects.
>   This could be done in general for the %.a: pattern in rules.mak, but maybe
>   there are valid reasons to build an empty .a?
> 
> * removed some intermediate variables that did not add much value
>   (LIBFDT_srcdir, LIBFDT_archive)
> 
> Tested locally with 3 VPATH configurations (no-, VPATH, VPATH in src subdir),
> and with docker-image-fedora, docker-test-debug@fedora that failed before.
> 
> Claudio Fontana (2):
>   Makefile: libfdt: build only the strict necessary
>   Makefile: remove old compatibility gunks
> 
>  Makefile  | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
>  configure |  6 +-----
>  rules.mak |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>