Re: [PATCH] add checkstack Makefile target

Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org)
Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:15:16 +0100


On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:51:49PM +0100, J??rn Engel wrote:

> > Since the above is now architecture independent, better locate it in
> > the top level Makefile.
>
> But the perl script itself breaks for anything but i386 and ppc at the
> moment, so I keep the changes in the arch Makefiles. Ultimately this
> should support all architectures and go to the top level, though.

There is no reason to put this in the arch specific makefiles.
You error out in a nice way in checkstack.pl anyway.
And architecture specific requirements shall be kept on a minimum.
Realise that the changes get even smaller, and only one file needs
to be touched to support a new architecture.

> +checkstack: vmlinux ***FORCE***
> + $(OBJDUMP) -d vmlinux | \
> + $(PERL) scripts/checkstack.pl $(ARCH)

You need FORCE to make sure the rule is actually executed.
And we have a variable that points to perl, use that one.

Sam
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