linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix cc-option-yn whitespace

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Date:	Wed, 7 Feb 2007 20:34:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix cc-option-yn whitespace



On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:

> This change:
> 
> 	commit 5de043f4bd11a9e0a3e8daec7d1905da575a76b7
> 	Author: Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
> 	Date:   Tue Feb 6 02:18:21 2007 +0100
> 
> 	    [PATCH] kbuild: improve option checking, Kbuild.include cleanup
> 
> introduced leading whitespace in the results of cc-option-yn and such.
> This breaks some of their uses, like HAS_MTUNE in arch/i386/Makefile.cpu.

Yes.. It doesn't seem to happen with make-3.81, for some reason, and I 
don't see why the leading space happens. Maybe somebody with deep GNU make 
knowledge knows.

I committed the hopefully equivalent patch (that also removes the 
symlinking to /dev/null that Roman objected to).

			Linus
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