[U-Boot] make clean problem

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear "Eugene O'Brien",

In message <8B3930FEA8618C44B48EB06B5D33A06E01CCE207 at satmail.Advantech.ca> you wrote:
> 
> @rm -f $(obj)tools/env/{fw_printenv,fw_setenv}
> 
> The reason is (after scratching my head for a few hours) that on my
> platform BASH is not the default shell. I am using Ubuntu and /bin/sh is
> linked to dash (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh for details). As
> I am not an expert on shells, my guess is that the above construct is a
> "bashism" and not compliant to /bin/sh.

Good catch...

> There are two trivial solutions to this problem:
> 
> (a) Add a line SHELL=/bin/bash somewhere in top level Makefile
> (b) Write out each individual file's path name separately in the @rm
> command line.

I think the above way to abbreviate long lists  of  file  names  that
have a long common partis pretty useful to keep the code readable, so
I tend to prefer solution (a).

But let's see what other people say...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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