linux-kernel - Re: The who needs reviews anyways [PATCH]

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702091215440.14457@scrub.home>
Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:35:04 +0100 (CET)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The who needs reviews anyways [PATCH]

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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