Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] qapi: Reduce Makefile boilerplate

[Markus Armbruster]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Adding a new qapi module had some rather tedious repetition to
> wire it into Makefile, Makefile.objs, and .gitignore (for example,
> see commit bf42508f and its followup b61acdec). For make, add some
> indirection by taking advantage of GNU Make string processing to
> expand a list of module names into all the required artifacts, so
> that future additions of a new module need only touch the list of
> module names.  And for gitignore, use globs to cover all generated
> file names.
>
> The list has to live in Makefile.objs, due to the way that
> our unnest-vars macro slirps in that file without remembering
> any definition of $(QAPI_MODULES) from Makefile.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>