[coreboot] [PATCH][RESEND] Print what mainboard coreboot is being built for during build

Nickolas Lloyd ntlloyd at uncg.edu
Fri Apr 8 01:08:13 CEST 2011


In bash at least using double-quotes results in the evaluation of
symbols, whereas single-quotes doesn't.  I suspect it's the same for
make.  I can change it if you like though.

Nick

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Russell Whitaker <russ at ashlandhome.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Marc Jones wrote:
>
>> Hi Nickolas,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Nickolas Lloyd <ntlloyd at uncg.edu> wrote:
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>>> Sorry about the mangling, I've attached the patch this time.
>>>
>>
>>> +       @echo "Built coreboot for $(CONFIG_MAINBOARD_VENDOR)
>>> $(CONFIG_MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER)"
>>
>> I think that you want the variables outside the "".
>>
> At least here the echo command ignores the quotes.
> Try this:
>  export ARCH=i686
> then
>  echo my arch is $ARCH
>  echo "my arch is $ARCH"
>  echo "my arch" is $ARCH
> all yeald the same result: my arch is i686
>
>  Russ
>




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