On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:19:01AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> 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.
Looks ok - but I do not see why use of $(shell ...) did not work out.
Please bring your working version forward.
Sam
