On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 03:16 +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > ----- On Sep 27, 2015, at 10:10 PM, Wang Long long.wanglong@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Some test's Makefile using "$(RM)" while the other's > > using "rm -f". It is better to use one of them in all > > tests. > > I agree that this disparity appears to be unwanted. We > should settle on one or the other. > > > "rm -f" is better, because it is less magic, and everyone > > konws what is does. > > "$(RM)" is clearly defined as a Makefile implicit variable > which defaults to "rm -f". > Ref. https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Implicit-Variables.html Sure, but you had to look it up didn't you :) - I did. > Leaving it as a variable is more flexible because then the > default behavior can be overridden if need be, which is > not the case of a hardcoded "rm -f". But I don't think anyone actually wants to do that. Do they? Anyway I don't really care either way, so I'm happy for you to do a patch that uses $(RM). Or maybe Wang Long will be happy to respin his patch to use $(RM). cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
