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cpupower: speed up generating git version string

Message ID 20200812094912.2648-1-martin.kaistra@linutronix.de
State Accepted
Commit 527b7779e5ecabb057089b760140309bdcacc16a
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Series cpupower: speed up generating git version string | expand

Commit Message

Martin Kaistra Aug. 12, 2020, 9:49 a.m. UTC
The variable VERSION is expanded for every use of CFLAGS. This causes
"git describe" to get called multiple times on the kernel tree, which
can be quite slow.

The git revision does not change during build, so we can use simple
variable expansion to set VERSION.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kaistra <martin.kaistra@linutronix.de>
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 tools/power/cpupower/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/Makefile b/tools/power/cpupower/Makefile
index c8622497ef23..c7bcddbd486d 100644
--- a/tools/power/cpupower/Makefile
+++ b/tools/power/cpupower/Makefile
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@  DESTDIR ?=
 # Package-related definitions. Distributions can modify the version
 # and _should_ modify the PACKAGE_BUGREPORT definition
 
-VERSION=			$(shell ./utils/version-gen.sh)
+VERSION:=			$(shell ./utils/version-gen.sh)
 LIB_MAJ=			0.0.1
 LIB_MIN=			0