It is often difficult to know exactly when make will expand the
variable, and usually it can only be expanded after the dependencies
have been built (e.g. pkg-config or the .pc file). Using a backtick
instead makes it very clear that it will be expanded only while
executing the command.
This change is useful for two cases:
1. The per-package staging (and host) directory will be created as part
of the configure step, so any $(shell ...) variable that is used in
the configure step will fail because the directory doesn't exist
yet.
2. 'make printvars' evaluates the variables it prints. It will therefore
trigger a lot of errors from missing .pc files and others. The
backticks, on the other hand, are not expanded, so with this change
the output of 'make printvars' becomes clean again.
This commit contains only the easy changes: replace $(shell ...) with
`...`, and also replace ' with " where needed. Follow-up commits will
tackle the more complicated cases that need additional explanation.
After this change, the following instances of $(shell ...) will remain:
- All assignments that use :=
- All variables that are used in make conditionals (which don't expand
the backticks).
- All variables that only refer to system executables and make
variables that don't change.
- The calls to check-host-* in dependencies.mk, because it is eval'ed.
[Original patch by Fabio Porcedda, but extended quite a bit by Arnout.]
Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Commit 5504039c4e (neardal: fix readline/libedit detection with static
linking) added the output of pkg-config to the LIBS shell variable without
adding quotes around it, breaking the logic if the output would ever consist
of more than 1 word.
Now, pkg-config --libs ncurses currently only outputs '-lncurses', so
nothing is really broken (for now atleast), but lets add the quotes before
it does or the syntax gets copied somewhere else where it does.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This commit doesn't touch infra packages.
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: add dependency on either readline or libedit, which is needed
for new versions of neardal.]
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Also remove a local patch which has now been accepted upstream.
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
[Thomas: taken from Mischa original github patch.]
Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
[Peter: move directly under neardal option so it gets indented]
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
