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authorDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>2009-01-02 13:17:13 +0000
committerDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>2009-01-02 13:17:13 +0000
commitb21a207141d83a06abc5f492b80204602e02ca44 (patch)
treef0152cde543008c72d7eb5c12c18095ad92785e6 /Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
parent3af373021fa32f8f787bfbdcc1a9277a287bde4e (diff)
parentb58602a4bac012b5f4fc12fe6b46ab237b610d5d (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-upstream
Conflicts: drivers/uwb/wlp/eda.c
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@@ -383,6 +383,20 @@ more details, with real examples.
to prerequisites are referenced with $(src) (because they are not
generated files).
+ $(kecho)
+ echoing information to user in a rule is often a good practice
+ but when execution "make -s" one does not expect to see any output
+ except for warnings/errors.
+ To support this kbuild define $(kecho) which will echo out the
+ text following $(kecho) to stdout except if "make -s" is used.
+
+ Example:
+ #arch/blackfin/boot/Makefile
+ $(obj)/vmImage: $(obj)/vmlinux.gz
+ $(call if_changed,uimage)
+ @$(kecho) 'Kernel: $@ is ready'
+
+
--- 3.11 $(CC) support functions
The kernel may be built with several different versions of