Re: [PATCH] kbuild: escape meta characters in regular expression in make TAGS

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun May 11 2008 - 04:13:40 EST


On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:04:31PM +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> introduced a code adds
> menuconfig SOMETHING in Kconfig to tags output when you did "make tags".
>
> See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=80ff26241623875636674a31c0540a78c0fb5433
>
> "make tags" may work fine with his code. However make TAGS doesn't work well
> because etags command requires backslashes to escape meta characters like
> `(', `)' and `|'.
>
> Here is a patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Masatake.

Applied and pushed out to kbuild-fixes.

Sam
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