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Since we use "?=" to set PLATFORM_ROOT, it is better to change the
name to be more special, or else it may be overridden by some
environment variables, such as in some CI build environments.
Signed-off-by: Heyi Guo <heyi.guo@linaro.org>

To make software license auditing simpler, use SPDX[0] license
identifiers instead of duplicating the license text in every file.

NOTE: Files that have been imported by FreeBSD have not been modified.

[0]: https://spdx.org/



Change-Id: I80a00e1f641b8cc075ca5a95b10607ed9ed8761a
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

As an initial stage of making Trusted Firmware build environment more
portable, we remove most uses of the $(shell ) function and replace them
with more portable make function based solutions.

Note that the setting of BUILD_STRING still uses $(shell ) since it's
not possible to reimplement this as a make function. Avoiding invocation
of this on incompatible host platforms will be implemented separately.

Change-Id: I768e2f9a265c78814a4adf2edee4cc46cda0f5b8