Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qapi: Reduce Makefile boilerplate

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:50:52PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> Adding a new qapi module requires some rather tedious repetition to
> wire it into Makefile and Makefile.objs. Add some indirection by
> taking advantage of GNU Make string processing to expand a list
> of module names into all the required artifacts, so that future
> additions of a new module need only touch the list of module names.
> 
> The list has to live in Makefile.objs, due to the way that
> unnest-vars slirps in that file without remembering any definition
> of $(QAPI_MODULES) from Makefile.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> 
> ---
> v2: also condense Makefile.objs, prefer $(FOO:%=a%b) over
> %(patsubst %,a%b,$(foo))
> ---
>  Makefile      | 192 ++++++--------------------------------------------
>  Makefile.objs |  75 ++------------------
>  2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 237 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

Though I'd also suggest .gitignore is updated to use wildcards
to exclude the generated files.


Regards,
Daniel
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