kbuild: introduce $(kecho) convenience echo

There is a bunch of places in the build system where we do 'echo' to show
some nice status lines.  This means we still get output when running in
silent mode.  So declare a new KECHO variable that only does 'echo' when we
are in a suitable verbose build mode.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
[sam: added Documentation]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Mike Frysinger 2008-11-06 03:31:34 -05:00 committed by Sam Ravnborg
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@ -383,6 +383,20 @@ more details, with real examples.
to prerequisites are referenced with $(src) (because they are not
generated files).
$(kecho)
echoing information to user in a rule is often a good practice
but when execution "make -s" one does not expect to see any output
except for warnings/errors.
To support this kbuild define $(kecho) which will echo out the
text following $(kecho) to stdout except if "make -s" is used.
Example:
#arch/blackfin/boot/Makefile
$(obj)/vmImage: $(obj)/vmlinux.gz
$(call if_changed,uimage)
@$(kecho) 'Kernel: $@ is ready'
--- 3.11 $(CC) support functions
The kernel may be built with several different versions of

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@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ basetarget = $(basename $(notdir $@))
# Escape single quote for use in echo statements
escsq = $(subst $(squote),'\$(squote)',$1)
###
# Easy method for doing a status message
kecho := :
quiet_kecho := echo
silent_kecho := :
kecho := $($(quiet)kecho)
###
# filechk is used to check if the content of a generated file is updated.
# Sample usage: