On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:44:44PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > >
> > > > IIRC, there are a number of deprecated variables and preferred
> > > > forms, along the lines of:
> > > >
> > > > ccflags-y -> EXTRA_CFLAGS
> > > > asflags-y -> EXTRA_AFLAGS
> > >
> > > ccflags-y, asflags are preferred.
> >
> > ah, it goes the other way. (i'm assuming you really meant asflags-y
> > above, and this would also include EXTRA_LDFLAGS -> ldflags-y, yes?)
>
> Yes - all three of them. And yes they have the -y postfix all of them.
>
> A simple git log Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt would have told
> you the story and what is preferred.
i *have* read that file and, after grepping through the source tree,
i'm still confused. as a simple example, consider the possible
variables for assembler flags. so far, i've found occurrences of:
* AFLAGS
* EXTRA_AFLAGS
* ASFLAGS
* AFLAGS-y
* KBUILD_AFLAGS
* aflags-y
* asflags-y
* extra-aflags-y
should i continue? and you're suggesting that reading that docs file
is going to clarify all of this? really? good luck.
rday
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