[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix whitespace bogon in some versions of make

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 04/26/2010 11:52 PM, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> With three different make binaries I have available, configuring a
> pristine QEMU tree and attempting to make gives the cryptic:
>
> Makefile:27: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
> This patch fixes it (presumably because it makes the output of
> `set-vpath' be an empty string, rather than a bit of whitespace), but I
> don't understand why this hasn't been a problem for other folks before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Froyd<froydnj@codesourcery.com>
> ---
>   rules.mak |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/rules.mak b/rules.mak
> index 5941b73..7e10432 100644
> --- a/rules.mak
> +++ b/rules.mak
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ cc-option = $(if $(shell $(CC) $1 $2 -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null \
>                 >/dev/null 2>&1&&  echo OK), $2, $3)
>
>   VPATH_SUFFIXES = %.c %.h %.S %.m %.mak %.texi
> -set-vpath = $(if $1,$(foreach PATTERN,$(VPATH_SUFFIXES), $(eval vpath $(PATTERN) $1)))
> +set-vpath = $(if $1,$(foreach PATTERN,$(VPATH_SUFFIXES),$(eval vpath $(PATTERN) $1)))
>
>   # Generate timestamp files for .h include files

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Paolo