On May 6, 2005, at 6:22 PM, <cpclark at xmission.com> wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2005, Kumar Gala wrote: > > I tried the following w/o success: > > > > $(obj)/uImage: $(obj)/vmlinux.gz > >???????? $(Q)rm -f $@ > >???????? $(call if_changed,uimage) > >???????? @echo '? Image: $@' $(shell if [ -f $@ ]; then echo 'is > ready'; else > > echo 'not made'; fi) > > Couldn't you eliminate the ($shell ..) construct altogether, like > this?: > > $(obj)/uImage: $(obj)/vmlinux.gz > ??????? $(Q)rm -f $@ > ??????? $(call if_changed,uimage) > ??????? @echo -n '? Image: $@' > ??????? @if [ -f $@ ]; then echo 'is ready' ; else echo 'not made'; fi
Yes, and this seems to actually work. Sam, does this look reasonable to you. If so I will work up a patch. thanks - kumar