[U-Boot] [PATCH] Introduce a new linker flag LDFLAGS_FINAL

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201102170037.42565.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
> 
> > I usually do this on the fly using shell scripting capabilities, i.e.
> > something like this (copying some shell functions from MAKEALL):
...
> this is is generally useful, perhaps MAKEALL should grow a flag to back up the 
> generated files with board-qualified names like the log files ...

Yes, the general approach is certainly very useful, and I use it a lot
to run all kinds of tests. However, I usually find myself interested
in very different kinds of results; looking at the .map files is just
one of the many use cases so I would not know what sort of "state
saving" code to implement by default.

The most generic approach is of course an out-of-tree build with a
separate build directory for each board.  But then, this costs a lot
of ressources and is only seldom really needed.

So I really don;t have a goiod suggestion how to generalize this. I
tend to rather spread the word how such things can be done, and do
them on the fly as needed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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