$(shell ...) expands to the output of the command. It expands to the
empty string when the command does not print anything to stdout.
Hence, $(shell mkdir ...) is sufficient and does not need any
variable assignment in front of it.
Commit c2bd08ba20a5 ("treewide: remove meaningless assignments in
Makefiles", 2024-02-23) did this to all of tools/ but ignored in-flight
changes to tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile, so reapply the change.
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
index 19f5710bb456..741c7dc16afc 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ TEST_DEP_FILES += $(patsubst %.o, %.d, $(LIBKVM_OBJS))
TEST_DEP_FILES += $(patsubst %.o, %.d, $(SPLIT_TEST_GEN_OBJ))
-include $(TEST_DEP_FILES)
-x := $(shell mkdir -p $(sort $(OUTPUT)/$(ARCH_DIR) $(dir $(LIBKVM_C_OBJ) $(LIBKVM_S_OBJ))))
+$(shell mkdir -p $(sort $(OUTPUT)/$(ARCH_DIR) $(dir $(LIBKVM_C_OBJ) $(LIBKVM_S_OBJ))))
$(filter-out $(SPLIT_TEST_GEN_PROGS), $(TEST_GEN_PROGS)) \
$(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED): %: %.o
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ $(LIBKVM_S_OBJ): $(OUTPUT)/%.o: %.S $(GEN_HDRS)
$(LIBKVM_STRING_OBJ): $(OUTPUT)/%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH) -c -ffreestanding $< -o $@
-x := $(shell mkdir -p $(sort $(dir $(TEST_GEN_PROGS))))
+$(shell mkdir -p $(sort $(dir $(TEST_GEN_PROGS))))
$(SPLIT_TEST_GEN_OBJ): $(GEN_HDRS)
$(TEST_GEN_PROGS): $(LIBKVM_OBJS)
$(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED): $(LIBKVM_OBJS)
--
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