From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266657AbUHIPHx (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:07:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266692AbUHIPHJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:07:09 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:21224 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266657AbUHIPE7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:04:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:04:58 +0200 (MEST) From: "Alexander Stohr" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, pluto@pld-linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: confirmed: kernel build for 2.6.8-rc3 is broken for at least i386 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated: #15156664 Message-ID: <13013.1092063898@www53.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.6 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hello Sam, i think i reached the root cause of my problem: bash# export AFLAGS_vmlinux.lds.o=123 export: AFLAGS_vmlinux.lds.o=123: not a legal variable name the problem seems to be raised by dots beeing part of the variable name. my version of bash is reported like shown here in the environment: BASH_VERSION=1.14.5(1) unfortunately the whole build process, including GNU Make 3.80, fails absolutely silently for this specific point of system error. sorry that i am feeling unable right now to provide a fix. maybe some more research is needed to find a viable solution. in worst case the whole makefile system has to be patched for any such variable construct. on the other side it does look like the normal recursive call sheme of make is immune to such bash habits, is it? (supposed it launches itselves directyl and not embedded in a few other shell commands...) i am not totally sure about that all - especially because i tried a newer shell which exposed the very same limitation, but there must be something in that area because i could fiddle out that the var setting gets lost all the time when calling "scripts/Makefile.build". -Alex. -- NEU: WLAN-Router für 0,- EUR* - auch für DSL-Wechsler! GMX DSL = supergünstig & kabellos http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl