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Message-ID: <20130401210947.GC20670@krava.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 23:09:47 +0200
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/27] perf tools: Add automated make test suite
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 09:53:18PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
SNIP
> > +
> > +MAKE_DEBUG := DEBUG=1
> > +MAKE_NO_LIBPERL := NO_LIBPERL=1
>
> Why all these ugly UPPERCASE names?
> In kbuild files the unwritten rule is that variables
> with global scope are upper-case.
> And variables with local scope are lower case.
>
> You can find many examples where this is not followed - but this
> is the general approach.
ok, for some reason I'm used to use capitals for makefile
variables ;)
>
> > +MAKE_MINIMAL := NO_LIBPERL=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_NEWT=1 NO_GTK2=1 NO_DEMANGLE=1 NO_LIBELF=1 NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_BACKTRACE=1 NO_LIBNUMA=1 NO_LIBAUDIT=1 NO_LIBBIONIC=1
>
> Keeping lines less than 120 chars long is good.
> Some people swer to 80 chars.
ok
>
> > +RUN := \
> > + MAKE_PURE \
> > + MAKE_DEBUG \
> > + MAKE_NO_LIBPERL \
>
> RUN += MAKE_PURE
> RUN += MAKE_DEBUG
> RUN += MAKE_NO_LIBPERL
>
> Is so much more readable.
> As a general rule - use \
> to continue lines only when you really have to.
ok
thanks,
jirka
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