From 5410ecc0def8955ab99810c5626cc7e156991896 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 03:31:34 -0500 Subject: kbuild: introduce $(kecho) convenience echo There is a bunch of places in the build system where we do 'echo' to show some nice status lines. This means we still get output when running in silent mode. So declare a new KECHO variable that only does 'echo' when we are in a suitable verbose build mode. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger [sam: added Documentation] Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg --- Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 7a7753321a26..51104f9194a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -383,6 +383,20 @@ more details, with real examples. to prerequisites are referenced with $(src) (because they are not generated files). + $(kecho) + echoing information to user in a rule is often a good practice + but when execution "make -s" one does not expect to see any output + except for warnings/errors. + To support this kbuild define $(kecho) which will echo out the + text following $(kecho) to stdout except if "make -s" is used. + + Example: + #arch/blackfin/boot/Makefile + $(obj)/vmImage: $(obj)/vmlinux.gz + $(call if_changed,uimage) + @$(kecho) 'Kernel: $@ is ready' + + --- 3.11 $(CC) support functions The kernel may be built with several different versions of -- cgit v1.2.2