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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qapi: Reduce Makefile boilerplate
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Daniel P . Berrangé |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qapi: Reduce Makefile boilerplate |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:26:59 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:50:52PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> Adding a new qapi module requires some rather tedious repetition to
> wire it into Makefile and Makefile.objs. Add some indirection by
> taking advantage of GNU Make string processing to expand a list
> of module names into all the required artifacts, so that future
> additions of a new module need only touch the list of module names.
>
> The list has to live in Makefile.objs, due to the way that
> unnest-vars slirps in that file without remembering any definition
> of $(QAPI_MODULES) from Makefile.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
>
> ---
> v2: also condense Makefile.objs, prefer $(FOO:%=a%b) over
> %(patsubst %,a%b,$(foo))
> ---
> Makefile | 192 ++++++--------------------------------------------
> Makefile.objs | 75 ++------------------
> 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 237 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
Though I'd also suggest .gitignore is updated to use wildcards
to exclude the generated files.
Regards,
Daniel
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