[PATCH] Makefile: Do not call useless command 'true'

[Simon Glass]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 11:39, Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 19 January 2021 11:06:12 Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Pali,
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:21, Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello! Could you please review this patch?
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 04 November 2020 15:33:44 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > Macro 'cmd_objcopy_uboot' currently does not work with passed empty command
> > > > expanded from 'cmd_static_rela' and therefore dummy command 'true' is set
> > > > in 'cmd_static_rela' to workaround this issue.
> > > >
> > > > Eliminate it now by fixing 'cmd_objcopy_uboot' macro to work also with
> > > > empty 'cmd_static_rela' macro and remove useless invocation of command
> > > > 'true'.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> > > > ---
> > > >  Makefile | 6 +++++-
> > > >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > > > index b90fe8b865..aeb2c17a9b 100644
> > > > --- a/Makefile
> > > > +++ b/Makefile
> > > > @@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ cmd_static_rela = \
> > > >       tools/relocate-rela $(3) $(4) $$start $$end
> > > >  else
> > > >  quiet_cmd_static_rela =
> > > > -cmd_static_rela = true
> > > > +cmd_static_rela =
> > > >  endif
> > > >
> > > >  # Always append INPUTS so that arch config.mk's can add custom ones
> > > > @@ -1312,7 +1312,11 @@ endif
> > > >  shell_cmd = { $(call echo-cmd,$(1)) $(cmd_$(1)); }
> > > >
> > > >  quiet_cmd_objcopy_uboot = OBJCOPY $@
> > > > +ifdef cmd_static_rela
> > > >  cmd_objcopy_uboot = $(cmd_objcopy) && $(call shell_cmd,static_rela,$<,$@,$(CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE)) || { rm -f $@; false; }
> > > > +else
> > > > +cmd_objcopy_uboot = $(cmd_objcopy)
> > > > +endif
> > > >
> > > >  u-boot-nodtb.bin: u-boot FORCE
> > > >       $(call if_changed,objcopy_uboot)
> > > > --
> > > > 2.20.1
> > > >
> >
> > I don't know much about that and your patch looks reasonable, but what
> > is the motivation? Is it a code clean-up or a bug?
>
> Hello! I do not know about any bugs here, so it is just code clean-up.

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>