[U-Boot] [PATCH] env: Fix operation of 'make environ'

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:01:51PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> writes:
> 
> > This was broken by the recent environment refactoring. Specifically:
> >
> > $  make environ
> > scripts/Makefile.build:59: tools/environ/Makefile: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'tools/environ/Makefile'.  Stop.
> > make: *** [Makefile:1469: environ] Error 2
> >
> > Fix this by updating the Makefile and adjusting the #include filesnames in
> > two C files.
> >
> > Fixes: ec74f5f (Makefile: Rename 'env' target to 'environ')
> > Reported-by: Måns Rullgård <mans at mansr.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> 
> This still breaks any build scripts using the old target (yes, there are
> many).  That's probably acceptable, but a mention of it in some release
> note would be nice.
> 
> Come to think of it, if we're anyway going to break things, how about
> giving that target a more descriptive name than environ?  I suggest
> envtools.

Too early, no coffee.  Can't we do some make logic so that 'env' is
still a target and thus we don't break those scripts?  Otherwise, yes,
I'll make sure to indicate in at least the v2017.09 release email that
we renamed 'env' to envtools or something.  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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