linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2.6.23-git] toplevel Makefile/depmod bugfix

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Message-ID: <20071020130635.GA6855@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:06:35 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.23-git] toplevel Makefile/depmod bugfix

> 
> > Is it truly protable with "=" or do we need to be more clever?
> 
> I don't know how you managed to get it to work wtih "==".
> String equality should be "=" in all /bin/sh versions.
> It's been that way since it was written in pseudo-Algol.

[sam@...tun kbuild.git]$ if [ "x86_64" == "x86_64" ]; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi
foo
[sam@...tun kbuild.git]$ if [ "x86_64" == "x86_64x" ]; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi
bar

So it works as I expected here.

I will push your fix later today (which I have tested and it works here too).

	Sam
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