Re: [PATCH] tools: ovmf debug build only if tools debug is enabled

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 31/10/13 14:02, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
> ---
>  tools/firmware/ovmf-makefile |   13 +++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/firmware/ovmf-makefile b/tools/firmware/ovmf-makefile
> index 073ed44..efb4fb1 100644
> --- a/tools/firmware/ovmf-makefile
> +++ b/tools/firmware/ovmf-makefile
> @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
> +XEN_ROOT = $(CURDIR)/../../..
> +include $(XEN_ROOT)/tools/Rules.mk
> +
>  # OVMF building system is not ready yet to run in parallel.
>  # Force it to be serial in order to exploit parallelism for neighbors.
>  
> @@ -9,8 +12,14 @@ all: ovmf.bin
>  
>  .PHONY: ovmf.bin

I know this is not your bad code, but this rule creates a file called
ovmf.bin, so is very explicitly not a .PHONY rule

>  ovmf.bin:
> -	OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64
> -	cp Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC*/FV/OVMF.fd ovmf.bin
> +	if [ "$(debug)" == y ]; then \
> +		OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64; \
> +		cp Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC*/FV/OVMF.fd ovmf.bin; \
> +	else \
> +		OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -b RELEASE; \
> +		cp Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC*/FV/OVMF.fd ovmf.bin; \
> +	fi
> +

This is rather ugly, and will add yet more spew into the logs (which is
in need of some pruning anyway).  In this case the entire if statement
will be printed, including both branches, before being executed.

The more "make" way of doing it would be something like:

ovmf.bin:
ifeq ($(debug),y)
        OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64
        cp Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC*/FV/OVMF.fd $@
else
        OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -b RELEASE
        cp Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC*/FV/OVMF.fd $@
endif

~Andrew