Re: Strange Makefile rule

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On 08/20/13 09:42, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> I do not have cross compile environment but I'm curious how the
> Makefile rule works:
> 
> linux-next]$ cat drivers/net/ethernet/arc/Makefile
> 
> obj-$(CONFIG_ARC_EMAC) += arc_emac.o
> 
> There is no file named arc_emac.h and arc_emac.c at
> drivers/net/ethernet/arc, so what does that line do?

It uses the rule from the previous line in the Makefile.
Both lines are:

arc_emac-objs := emac_main.o emac_mdio.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ARC_EMAC) += arc_emac.o


Any xyz-objs defines the files to be used to build xyz.o.

Is that clear yet?


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~Randy
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