Re: [PATCH] treewide: remove meaningless assignments in Makefiles

[Namhyung Kim]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:42:01 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> In Makefiles, $(error ), $(warning ), and $(info ) expand to the empty
> string, as explained in the GNU Make manual [1]:
>  "The result of the expansion of this function is the empty string."
> 
> Therefore, they are no-op except for logging purposes.
> 
> $(shell ...) expands to the output of the command. It expands to the
> empty string when the command does not print anything to stdout.
> Hence, $(shell mkdir ...) is no-op except for creating the directory.
> 
> [...]

Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!

Best regards,
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Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>