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kbuild: add comment about why cmd_shipped uses 'cat'
cmd_shipped uses 'cat' instead of 'cp' for copying a file. The reason
is explained in the commit [1], but it was in the pre-git era.
$ touch a
$ chmod -w a
$ cp a b
$ cp a b
cp: cannot create regular file 'b': Permission denied
Add comments so that you can see the reason without looking into
the history.
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=a70dba8086160449cc94c5bdaff78419b6b8e3c8
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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scripts/Makefile.lib
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scripts/Makefile.lib
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# Shipped files
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# ===========================================================================
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# 'cp' preserves permissions. If you use it to copy a file in read-only srctree,
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# the copy would be read-only as well, leading to an error when executing the
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# rule next time. Use 'cat' instead in order to generate a writable file.
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quiet_cmd_shipped = SHIPPED $@
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cmd_shipped = cat $< > $@