Re: The who needs reviews anyways [PATCH]

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Fri Feb 09 2007 - 06:35:33 EST


Hi,

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:

> > - else if [ -x /bin/bash ]; then echo /bin/bash; \
> > - else echo sh; fi ; fi)
> > + else if [ -x /bin/bash ]; then echo /bin/bash; fi; fi)
> > +ifeq ($(CONFIG_SHELL),)
> > +$(error bash is required to build the kernel)
> > +endif
> > +SHELL := $(CONFIG_SHELL)
>
> here is policy to have `bash' introduced, so due to original
> issue, where `root' users ended with removed /dev/null, may policy to have
> `non root' user to build kernel be added? Thus

I doubt gentoo user will like you for that and above is more a de facto
requirement that bash is needed for kbuild. The alternative is to
introduce a new policy that everything is POSIX clean.

> this:
> > + rm -f "$$TMP")
>
> may be removed, and to make TMP=/dev/null? And to forget currently about
> my silly symlinks, and this crappy sets of output files?

This still wouldn't work, as these tests are also done when running 'make
install'.

> > -as-instr = $(call checker-shell,\
> > - printf "$(1)" | $(CC) $(AFLAGS) -c -xassembler -o $$OUT -,$(2),$(3))
>
> `printf $(1)' is pretty enough.

As Andreas suggested 'printf "%b" "$(1)"' would be the other alternative.

bye, Roman
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