On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 04:27:31PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > The motivation of this commit is to avoid duplicated definitions > of "clean" and "hdr-inst" shorthands. > > The shorthand "clean" is defined in both the top Makefile and > scripts/Makefile.clean. > > Likewise, "hdr-inst" is defined in both the top Makefile and > scripts/Makefile.headersinst. > > The idea here is define and export them in the top Makefile > because $(srctree) is constant during the build process. > > For consistency, "build" and "modbuiltin" should be also moved. As a general rule the exported names are always UPPERCASE, and local variables are lowercase. (srctree, objtree are the exceptions). This patch define new lowercase variables that conflicts with this. And it is not that logical these are picked up from the enviroment. Could you find a central place to define them rahter than using the environemnt to export them? Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
