Re: 2.5.21: kbuild changes broke filenames with commas

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 08:01:22 EST


On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:16:10AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Well the question is then how will things look without commas? I suppose
> if we have very complex things and prevent using commas whereas I don't
> assert that we do for text but this is just a bloat example it's good to
> have things like commas allowed even though we are in case we won't allow
> them there talking about file names.
>
> If we allow commas all over the filesystem and likewise say that there is
> nothing to mention about it why should we refuse them for kbuild
> especially since there is a parallel system which allows commas?

You've *completely* missed the point.

The gcc argument >>> -Wp,-MD,foo,bar.c <<< is the problem. If anything
should be fixed, its that silly gcc syntax. kbuild should not work
around the inability of gcc to accept filenames with commas in.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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