From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:08:38 -0800
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Makefile: remove symbolic links in tools/
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On 2/5/2010 4:01 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 05 February 2010 18:49:37 Alessandro Rubini wrote:
>    
>> Older versions created symbolic links for e.g. crc32.c.
>> If such link remains in a tree, current Makefiles will use CC
>> instead of HOSTCC to compile it; this results in a linker error.
>> To be safe, let's remove any link from earlier checkouts.
>>      
> current policy is to run `git clean -x -d` after a `git pull`, but i dont care either way
>
>    
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>>   	@[ ! -d $(obj)nand_spl ] || find $(obj)nand_spl -name "*" -type l -print | xargs rm -f
>>   	@[ ! -d $(obj)onenand_ipl ] || find $(obj)onenand_ipl -name "*" -type l -print | xargs rm -f
>> 	@[ ! -d $(obj)tools ] || find $(obj)tools -name "*" -type l -print | xargs rm -f
>>      
> not related directly to your patch, but these -name '*' are useless
>
> also, why not just scan the entire tree:
> 	@[ ! -d $(obj) ] || find $(obj) -type l -print | xargs rm -f
> -mike
>    
>    
And 'find' had a '-delete' switch.  Not sure how long it's been there.

regards,
Ben