In 2016 GNU Make made a backwards incompatible change to the way '#'
characters were handled in Makefiles when used inside functions or
macros:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=
c6966b323811c37acedff05b57
Due to this change, when attempting to run `make prepare' I get a
spurious make syntax error:
/home/earnest/linux/tools/objtool/.fixdep.o.cmd:1: *** missing separator. Stop.
When inspecting `.fixdep.o.cmd' it includes two lines which use
unescaped comment characters at the top:
\# cannot find fixdep (/home/earnest/linux/tools/objtool//fixdep)
\# using basic dep data
This is because `tools/build/Build.include' prints these '\#'
characters:
printf '\# cannot find fixdep (%s)\n' $(fixdep) > $(dot-target).cmd; \
printf '\# using basic dep data\n\n' >> $(dot-target).cmd; \
This completes commit
9564a8cf422d ("Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files
for future Make").
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197847
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
$(fixdep) $(depfile) $@ '$(make-cmd)' > $(dot-target).tmp; \
rm -f $(depfile); \
mv -f $(dot-target).tmp $(dot-target).cmd, \
- printf '\# cannot find fixdep (%s)\n' $(fixdep) > $(dot-target).cmd; \
- printf '\# using basic dep data\n\n' >> $(dot-target).cmd; \
+ printf '$(pound) cannot find fixdep (%s)\n' $(fixdep) > $(dot-target).cmd; \
+ printf '$(pound) using basic dep data\n\n' >> $(dot-target).cmd; \
cat $(depfile) >> $(dot-target).cmd; \
printf '\n%s\n' 'cmd_$@ := $(make-cmd)' >> $(dot-target).cmd)