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Date:   Tue, 8 Mar 2022 11:23:31 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: fix config cc version check

On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 7:32 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> .config is of the form:
> CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="gcc (GCC) 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9)"


No. This was changed.

See this:

$ git show 129ab0d2d9f -- Makefile



> while CC_VERSION_TEXT is of the form: gcc (GCC) 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-7)
>
> thus when comparing these, CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT should not
> be put in "", otherwise we get () outside "" which shell then
> tries to evaluate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> ---
>  Makefile | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index daeb5c88b50b..d5c03c827825 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1714,9 +1714,9 @@ PHONY += prepare
>  # now expand this into a simple variable to reduce the cost of shell evaluations
>  prepare: CC_VERSION_TEXT := $(CC_VERSION_TEXT)
>  prepare:
> -       @if [ "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" != "$(CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT)" ]; then \
> +       @if [ "$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)" != $(CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT) ]; then \
>                 echo >&2 "warning: the compiler differs from the one used to build the kernel"; \
> -               echo >&2 "  The kernel was built by: $(CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT)"; \
> +               echo >&2 "  The kernel was built by: "$(CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT)";" \
>                 echo >&2 "  You are using:           $(CC_VERSION_TEXT)"; \
>         fi
>
> --
> MST
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada