On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:07:47PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 10:05 +0800, long.wanglong wrote: > > On 2015/9/24 9:46, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 09:40 +0000, Wang Long wrote: > > >> Use make's built-in rules to when delete a file > > >> or delete files. > > > > > > It's not a built-in rule, it's a variable. > > > > Sorry，I did not describe clearly. It is a variable used as > > name of program in built-in rules. > > > > > Personally I think using rm directly is clearer, but I guess this is > > > fine. Do > > > you actually want to override $RM ? > > > > So far, I do not want to override $(RM). But I found that some test's > > Makefile > > using *$(RM)* while the other's using *rm -f*, I think it is better to use > > one > > of them in all unit tests.
Agreed, consistency is good. > > > > Do you think which one is better? > > I prefer just using rm -f, because it's less magic, everyone knows what it > does. > Also agreed, it's explicit and perfectly functional. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
