On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:43:01 +0100
Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 18:57:55 +0100
> > Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Use the C pre-processor for the linker script generation. For example,
> >> this enables us the use of constants in the "linker scripts" `*.lds.S`.
> >
> > please explain that the original .lds scripts are being renamed to
> > .lds.S, and that the .lds are now generated.
>
> Okay.
>
> >
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> .gitignore | 1 +
> >> s390x/Makefile | 6 ++++--
> >> s390x/{flat.lds => flat.lds.S} | 0
> >> s390x/snippets/asm/{flat.lds => flat.lds.S} | 0
> >> s390x/snippets/c/{flat.lds => flat.lds.S} | 0
> >> 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >> rename s390x/{flat.lds => flat.lds.S} (100%)
> >> rename s390x/snippets/asm/{flat.lds => flat.lds.S} (100%)
> >> rename s390x/snippets/c/{flat.lds => flat.lds.S} (100%)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> >> index 601822d67325..29f352c5ceb6 100644
> >> --- a/.gitignore
> >> +++ b/.gitignore
> >> @@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ cscope.*
> >> /s390x/comm.key
> >> /s390x/snippets/*/*.hdr
> >> /s390x/snippets/*/*.*obj
> >> +/s390x/**/*.lds
> >
> > why ** ?
>
> Because all of our linker scripts are generated now:
>
> s390x/snippets/(c|asm)/*.lds
>
> and
>
> s390x/*.lds
>
> […snip]
>
I still don't understand why ** instead of just * ?
