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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
To: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kbuild: global makefile and spaces in path
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 15:48:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568D2927.2010106@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh8nfrx8.fsf@belgarion.home>

On 2015-12-21 21:49, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> I compiled my kernel in a directory /home/robert jarzmik/kernel, and that's the
> first time I encountered a space in the path containing my kernel in years.
> 
> I was wondering if there is a known constraint that the linux kernel source
> should be contained within a path without any space ?

Whitespace and colons are problematic.


> If no such constraint is known, maybe you could consider the patch in [1].

I expect it is going to break in lot more places, especially if you do
an O= build. I think it's better to just check for this and error out early.

Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-06 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-21 20:49 kbuild: global makefile and spaces in path Robert Jarzmik
2016-01-06 14:48 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2016-01-07 21:53   ` Robert Jarzmik
2016-02-05 21:30     ` Robert Jarzmik
2016-02-08 20:03       ` Michal Marek
2016-02-08 20:10         ` Robert Jarzmik

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