build(marvell): avoid using recursive expansion for BLE_INCLUDES

Commit 559ab2df4 specifies that there should be a PLAT_INCLUDES
specifically for the BLE image. This is done with a quirky rule that

build(marvell): avoid using recursive expansion for BLE_INCLUDES

Commit 559ab2df4 specifies that there should be a PLAT_INCLUDES
specifically for the BLE image. This is done with a quirky rule that
triggers only on the BLE files and relies on PLAT_INCLUDES expanding
recursively to work correctly.

Recursively expanded variables are a brittle part of the build system,
so this patch removes that aspect but keeps the BLE_INCLUDES principle
via the BLE_INCLUDE_DIRS variable that MAKE_C will correctly pick up.

Change-Id: Ibd10904f6a005fef9ed242b65e96662ce002eb18
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>

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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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build: always prefix section names with `.`

Some of our specialized sections are not prefixed with the conventional
period. The compiler uses input section names to derive certain other
section name

build: always prefix section names with `.`

Some of our specialized sections are not prefixed with the conventional
period. The compiler uses input section names to derive certain other
section names (e.g. `.rela.text`, `.relacpu_ops`), and these can be
difficult to select in linker scripts when there is a lack of a
delimiter.

This change introduces the period prefix to all specialized section
names.

BREAKING-CHANGE: All input and output linker section names have been
prefixed with the period character, e.g. `cpu_ops` -> `.cpu_ops`.

Change-Id: I51c13c5266d5975fbd944ef4961328e72f82fc1c
Signed-off-by: Chris Kay <chris.kay@arm.com>

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build: clarify linker script generation

The following build system variables have been renamed:

- `LINKERFILE` -> `DEFAULT_LINKER_SCRIPT`
- `BL_LINKERFILE` -> `DEFAULT_LINKER_SCRIPT_SOURCE`
- `<IMA

build: clarify linker script generation

The following build system variables have been renamed:

- `LINKERFILE` -> `DEFAULT_LINKER_SCRIPT`
- `BL_LINKERFILE` -> `DEFAULT_LINKER_SCRIPT_SOURCE`
- `<IMAGE>_LINKERFILE` -> `<IMAGE>_DEFAULT_LINKER_SCRIPT_SOURCE`

These new names better reflect how each variable is used:

1. the default linker script is passed via `-dT` instead of `-T`
2. linker script source files are first preprocessed

Additionally, linker scripts are now placed in the build directory
relative to where they exist in the source directory. For example,
the `bl32/sp_min/sp_min.ld.S` would now preprocess to
`sp_min/sp_min.ld` instead of just `bl32.ld`

BREAKING-CHANGE: The `LINKERFILE`, `BL_LINKERFILE` and
`<IMAGE_LINKERFILE>` build system variables have been renamed. See the
commit message for more information.

Change-Id: If8cef65dcb8820e8993736702c8741e97a66e6cc
Signed-off-by: Chris Kay <chris.kay@arm.com>

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