Re: kbuild: global makefile and spaces in path

Michal Marek
2016-01-06T14:48:09Z

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