linux-kernel - Re: parisc arch makefile clean-up needed [Was: cleaning up "make headers

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Message-ID: <20071010193827.GE2746@fattire.cabal.ca>
Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:38:27 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	parisc-linux-request@...ts.parisc-linux.org,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...isc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: parisc arch makefile clean-up needed [Was: cleaning up "make headers_install" for various architectures]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:38:58PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> parisc arch Makefile needs some love and care...
> 

It basically hasn't been touched since 2.4, I already have a patch to
clean up a lot of things when Randy pointed it out a while ago. Thanks
for the reminder, I'll queue it for 2.6.24.

Regards,
	Kyle

> The logic selecting CROSS_COMPILE seems fishy and wrong -
> the error reported by rday is obvious in this respect.
> 
> FINAL_LD is unused - kill it.
> 
> Building with oldpalo has been broken for a loong time - time to kill it?
> Hint - the "cd ../palo" is not working as expected.
> And use of TOPDIR is deprecated.
> 
> The libs-y assignment should learn from the other architectures how to
> get the gcc lib filename:
> $(shell $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -print-libgcc-file-name)
> 
> 
> And this snippet is also wrong:
> PALO := $(shell if which palo; then : ; \
> 	elif [ -x /sbin/palo ]; then echo /sbin/palo; \
> 	fi)
> 
> palo: vmlinux
> 	@if [ -x $PALO ]; then \
> 
> 
> Make does not export variables so $PALO is not the same as $(PALO).
> The latter should be used.
> 
> I did not supply a patch because I do not fully understand the
> logic behind setting CROSS_COMPILE and 64BIT or not.
> But I will be happy to review a patch to fix the issues in the
> parisc Makefile.

I'll add this to the patch as well.
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