The flashrom makefile wants to redirect both stdout and stderr to /dev/null for one compile test
The old variant of using &>/dev/null works on bash and zsh, but not on
dash and tcsh. dash and tcsh interpret it as "background command and
truncate /dev/null" which is not what we want. >& works on tcsh and
bash, but it is not POSIX compliant.
Since make uses /bin/sh and /bin/sh has to be POSIX compliant, we can
use the POSIX variant of stderr and stdout redirection.
>/dev/null 2>&1
is POSIX compliant. This is specified in SuSv3, Shell Command Language,
sections 2.7.2 and 2.7.6.
Corresponding to flashrom svn r443 and coreboot v2 svn r4211.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Guilloux <stephan.guilloux@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Ward Vandewege <ward@gnu.org>
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