On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:19:36AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 09.05.2016 16:01, Andrew Jones wrote: > > This does the same cleanup as 'x86: Makefile refine' > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > powerpc/Makefile.common | 13 ++++--------- > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/powerpc/Makefile.common b/powerpc/Makefile.common > > index 4449aec616853..60d545c98e38c 100644 > > --- a/powerpc/Makefile.common > > +++ b/powerpc/Makefile.common > > @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ CFLAGS += -I lib -I lib/libfdt > > CFLAGS += -Wa,-mregnames > > CFLAGS += -fpie > > > > +# We want to keep intermediate files: %.elf and %.o > > +.PRECIOUS: %.elf %.o > > If you just want to keep intermediate files, wouldn't it be better to > use .SECONDARY instead of .PRECIOUS? .PRECIOUS seems to contain some > more magic that comes into action when make is killed by a signal... not > sure if we want to have that here? I should extend the commit message to explain that. Wei Yang found (and I confirmed) that .SECONDARY doesn't seem to work[*] - we tried it, but the intermediate files still got removed. We both agree it would be the more appropriate choice though. Did you have better luck with it? Thanks, drew [*] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/151351/focus=151536 > > Thomas > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
