Merge "build: remove Windows compatibility layer" into integration

build: remove Windows compatibility layer

For a couple of releases now we have officially withdrawn support for
building TF-A on Windows using the native environment, relying instead
on POSIX emulat

build: remove Windows compatibility layer

For a couple of releases now we have officially withdrawn support for
building TF-A on Windows using the native environment, relying instead
on POSIX emulation layers like MSYS2, Mingw64, Cygwin or WSL.

This change removes the remainder of the OS compatibility layer
entirely, and migrates the build system over to explicitly relying on a
POSIX environment.

Change-Id: I8fb60d998162422e958009afd17eab826e3bc39b
Signed-off-by: Chris Kay <chris.kay@arm.com>

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Merge changes If56ed0ab,I632236a1 into integration

* changes:
perf(build): don't check the compiler's flags for every target
perf(build): be clever about uppercasing

perf(build): be clever about uppercasing

Most of the macros in build_macros.mk get lazily evaluated. That's
mostly fine, except for the fact that the `uppercase` macro needs to
spawn a subshell to g

perf(build): be clever about uppercasing

Most of the macros in build_macros.mk get lazily evaluated. That's
mostly fine, except for the fact that the `uppercase` macro needs to
spawn a subshell to get its output. And the target for every file
requires calling `uppercase` many, MANY, times, thrashing performance on
even the most trivial of make commands.

We can be a little clever and only call `uppercase` a handful of times
and then pass around the already uppercased strings.

The same is true about the verbosity augmentation variables. Simply
changing them to simply expanded variables allows for them to be
pre-processed and then used over and over again.

`make realclean` is a pretty good benchmark for this as it doesn't do
much else but must process all the rules, like every other make command.
On a clean checkout of TF-A on an Intel Xeon Gold 5218 (i.e. slow
single-core) workstation, that command used to take about 7 seconds.
With this patch it takes about 0.5.

Change-Id: I632236a12a40f169e834974ecbc73ff80aac3462
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>

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Merge changes from topic "ck/tf-a/verbosity-cleanup" into integration

* changes:
build: unify verbosity handling
build: add facilities for interpreting boolean values
build: add string casing

Merge changes from topic "ck/tf-a/verbosity-cleanup" into integration

* changes:
build: unify verbosity handling
build: add facilities for interpreting boolean values
build: add string casing facilities to utilities

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build: unify verbosity handling

This change introduces a few helper variables for dealing with verbose
and silent build modes: `silent`, `verbose`, `q` and `s`.

The `silent` and `verbose` variables

build: unify verbosity handling

This change introduces a few helper variables for dealing with verbose
and silent build modes: `silent`, `verbose`, `q` and `s`.

The `silent` and `verbose` variables are boolean values determining
whether the build system has been configured to run silently or
verbosely respectively (i.e. with `--silent` or `V=1`).

These two modes cannot be used together - if `silent` is truthy then
`verbose` is always falsy. As such:

make --silent V=1

... results in a silent build.

In addition to these boolean variables, we also introduce two new
variables - `s` and `q` - for use in rule recipes to conditionally
suppress the output of commands.

When building silently, `s` expands to a value which disables the
command that follows, and `q` expands to a value which supppresses
echoing of the command:

$(s)echo 'This command is neither echoed nor executed'
$(q)echo 'This command is executed but not echoed'

When building verbosely, `s` expands to a value which disables the
command that follows, and `q` expands to nothing:

$(s)echo 'This command is neither echoed nor executed'
$(q)echo 'This command is executed and echoed'

In all other cases, both `s` and `q` expand to a value which suppresses
echoing of the command that follows:

$(s)echo 'This command is executed but not echoed'
$(q)echo 'This command is executed but not echoed'

The `s` variable is predominantly useful for `echo` commands, where you
always want to suppress echoing of the command itself, whilst `q` is
more useful for all other commands.

Change-Id: I8d8ff6ed714d3cb401946c52955887ed7dca602b
Signed-off-by: Chris Kay <chris.kay@arm.com>

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