Re: [PATCH] kbuild: honor '-s' option for tools/*

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 14:36 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This changes all three of the above to behave just like Kbuild does,
> and print no output with 'make -s' regardless of the version of that
> tool, but otherwise behaves as before. In case of
> tools/scripts/Makefile.include, I decided to use an identical
> conditional block to set the $(quiet) variable for consistency,
> even though it is not used in the same way.

trivial notes:

> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
[]
> @@ -1612,11 +1612,12 @@ image_name:
>  # Clear a bunch of variables before executing the submake
>  tools/: FORCE
>  	$(Q)mkdir -p $(objtree)/tools
> -	$(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(shell cd $(objtree) && /bin/pwd) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/
> +	echo MAKEFLAGS=\""$(MAKEFLAGS)"\"
> +	$(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(findstring s,$(firstword -$(MAKEFLAGS))) $(filter --j% -j -s,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(shell cd $(objtree) && /bin/pwd) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/

Perhaps this is complicated enough to warrant some additional comments.

> diff --git a/tools/build/Makefile.build b/tools/build/Makefile.build
[]
> @@ -19,6 +19,16 @@ else
>    Q=@
>  endif
>  
> +ifneq ($(filter 4.%,$(MAKE_VERSION)),)	# make-4
> +ifneq ($(filter %s ,$(firstword x$(MAKEFLAGS))),)
> +  quiet=silent_
> +endif
> +else					# make-3.8x
> +ifneq ($(filter s% -s%,$(MAKEFLAGS)),)
> +  quiet=silent_
> +endif
> +endif

And perhaps the tests should be reversed for make version 3 so when
make version 5 comes out and it likely has the same behavior as
version 4, this doesn't need rewrite.