Re: [PATCH] Correctly deal with make that has an argument which contains an "s"

Américo Wang
2010-04-27T05:54:10Z

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Jason Wessel
<jason.wessel@windriver.com> wrote:
> When using remake, which is based on gnumake, if you invoke
> an example build as shown below, the build will become silent
> due to the top level make file incorrectly guessing that
> the end user wants a silent build because an argument that
> contained an "s" was used.
>
> remake --no-extended-errors
>
> Fix up the top level Makefile to use filter with a list of
> options that mean silent with the various revisions of gnumake,
> instead of findstring.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
> CC: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Thanks.

> ---
>  Makefile |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index fa1db90..91ae299 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ endif
>  # If the user is running make -s (silent mode), suppress echoing of
>  # commands
>
> -ifneq ($(findstring s,$(MAKEFLAGS)),)
> +ifneq ($(filter s% -s% --silent --quiet,$(MAKEFLAGS)),)
>   quiet=silent_
>  endif
>
> --
> 1.6.3.3
>
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