[coreboot] how to delete symbol link created at compile time

Marc Jones marcj303 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 06:22:03 CEST 2011


On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:19 AM, She, Kerry <Kerry.She at amd.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Some mainboard support more than one family of CPUs with same socket type,
>
> Such as SuperMicro/h8scm:
>
> http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron4100/SR56x0/H8SCM-F.cfm
>
>
>
> My implementation is the mainboard CPU type can be configured as family10 or
> family15 CPU.
>
> In order to eliminate the duplicated code, both configuration shares most of
> the platform code,
>
> but some code can’t be shared between different family of CPUs.
>
> Take devicetree.cb as an example,
>
> I have created 2 devicetree file :
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> devicetree_f15.cb for platform with family 15 CPU
>
> devicetree_f10.cb  for platform with family 10 CPU
>
>
>
> I changed the makefile to create a symbol link “devicetree.cb” link to
> devicetree_f10.cb or devicetree_f15.cb at compile time.
>
> The problem is that I can’t delete the symbol link when make
> clean/distclean.
>
>
>
> I found that make clean/distclean will not traverse the src/ directory.
>
> How can I get this symbol link removed when doing a make clean.
>
> Any other suggestion is welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Kerry Sheh < kerry.she at amd.com>
> Tel:  86-10-6280-1415
> Mobile:  86 - 152 1018 2083

Kerry,

I thought about a recursive call through the subdirs to do a make
clean, but that would make a lot of errors for most Makefiles.inc
because they don't have a clean target. I wonder if there is a better
way.

Marc

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