BaseTools: add some comment for .PrebuildEnv file's usage

This patch add some comments to explain why we use .PrebuildEnv file to
save environment variable settings set by the prebuild script.

Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
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Yonghong Zhu 2017-07-25 13:56:53 +08:00
parent 3b341e263d
commit 134bbe88ac
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@ -1029,6 +1029,11 @@ class Build():
if self.Prebuild:
EdkLogger.info("\n- Prebuild Start -\n")
self.LaunchPrebuildFlag = True
#
# The purpose of .PrebuildEnv file is capture environment variable settings set by the prebuild script
# and preserve them for the rest of the main build step, because the child process environment will
# evaporate as soon as it exits, we cannot get it in build step.
#
PrebuildEnvFile = os.path.join(GlobalData.gConfDirectory,'.cache','.PrebuildEnv')
if os.path.isfile(PrebuildEnvFile):
os.remove(PrebuildEnvFile)