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

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

 Hi David,

could you maybe take this through your ppc tree?

 Thanks,
  Thomas


On 01/06/2020 13.28, Claudio Fontana wrote:
> 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(-)
>>
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