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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: firmware: fix build of external firmware
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:20:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E4CEA1.8090207@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E34DDC020000780002A045@mail.emea.novell.com>

On 2014-08-07 09:58, Jan Beulich wrote:
> It looks like commit 5180d5f483 ("firmware: Simplify directory
> creation") uncovered a latent bug: The cmd_fwbin make macro, which is
> being called without any arguments, referenced argument 2, which I
> suppose previously just happened to be set to the right value (from an
> enclosing macro invocation - some make versions don't always properly
> clear unused macro arguments on nested macro invocations). In 3.16 with
> such make versions it now points into the source tree instead,
> resulting in build failure when building outside the source tree. And
> obviously on make versions properly clearing unused arguments it would
> have resolved to empty.

With which make version are you seeing the error?

Thanks,
Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-08 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-07  7:58 firmware: fix build of external firmware Jan Beulich
2014-08-08 13:20 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2014-08-08 13:29   ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-13 14:55     ` Michal Marek
2014-08-22 14:52       ` Jan Beulich

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