Re: [PATCH] BaseTools/VfrCompile: honor EXTRA_LDFLAGS

["Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>]

Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>

And, push at aa4e0df1f0c7ffdff07d7e382c9da89cbe207cdb

Thanks
Liming
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 7:38 PM
> To: edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>
> Cc: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>; Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] BaseTools/VfrCompile: honor EXTRA_LDFLAGS
> 
> In commit 81502cee20ac ("BaseTools/Source/C: take EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
> caller", 2018-08-16), I missed that "VfrCompile/GNUmakefile" does not use
> BUILD_LFLAGS in the APPLICATION linking rule, unlike "app.makefile" does.
> Instead, "VfrCompile/GNUmakefile" uses the (undefined) LFLAGS macro.
> Therefore commit 81502cee20ac did not cover the linking step of
> VfrCompile.
> 
> Thankfully, the structure of the linking rules is the same, between
> "app.makefile" and "VfrCompile/GNUmakefile". Rename the undefined LFLAGS
> macro in "VfrCompile/GNUmakefile" to VFR_LFLAGS (for consistency with
> VFR_CXXFLAGS), and set it to EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
> 
> As a result, we have:
> 
>              | compilation                    | linking
>   -----------+--------------------------------+----------------------
>   VfrCompile | VFR_CXXFLAGS =                 | VFR_LFLAGS =
>              | BUILD_OPTFLAGS =               | EXTRA_LDFLAGS
>              | '-O2' + EXTRA_OPTFLAGS         |
>   -----------+--------------------------------+----------------------
>   other apps | BUILD_CFLAGS/BUILD_CXXFLAGS =  | BUILD_LFLAGS =
>              | [...] + BUILD_OPTFLAGS =       | [...] + EXTRA_LDFLAGS
>              | [...] + '-O2' + EXTRA_OPTFLAGS |
> 
> This table shows
> - that the VfrCompile compilation and linking flags are always a subset of
>   the corresponding flags used by the other apps,
> - and that the EXTRA flags are always at the end.
> 
> Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
> Cc: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
> Ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1540244
> Fixes: 81502cee20ac4046f08bb4aec754c7091c8808dc
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Repo:   https://github.com/lersek/edk2.git
>     Branch: extra_flags_rhbz1540244_round2
> 
>  BaseTools/Source/C/VfrCompile/GNUmakefile | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/C/VfrCompile/GNUmakefile b/BaseTools/Source/C/VfrCompile/GNUmakefile
> index bbe562cbc54f..9273589ff805 100644
> --- a/BaseTools/Source/C/VfrCompile/GNUmakefile
> +++ b/BaseTools/Source/C/VfrCompile/GNUmakefile
> @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ VFR_CPPFLAGS = -DPCCTS_USE_NAMESPACE_STD $(BUILD_CPPFLAGS)
>  # keep BUILD_OPTFLAGS last
>  VFR_CXXFLAGS = $(BUILD_OPTFLAGS)
> 
> +# keep EXTRA_LDFLAGS last
> +VFR_LFLAGS = $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
> +
>  LINKER = $(BUILD_CXX)
> 
>  EXTRA_CLEAN_OBJECTS = EfiVfrParser.cpp EfiVfrParser.h VfrParser.dlg VfrTokens.h VfrLexer.cpp VfrLexer.h VfrSyntax.cpp tokens.h
> @@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ APPLICATION = $(MAKEROOT)/bin/$(APPNAME)
>  all: $(MAKEROOT)/bin $(APPLICATION)
> 
>  $(APPLICATION): $(OBJECTS)
> -	$(LINKER) -o $(APPLICATION) $(LFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) -L$(MAKEROOT)/libs $(LIBS)
> +	$(LINKER) -o $(APPLICATION) $(VFR_LFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) -L$(MAKEROOT)/libs $(LIBS)
> 
>  VfrCompiler.o: ../Include/Common/BuildVersion.h
> 
> --
> 2.14.1.3.gb7cf6e02401b