Re: 2.5.21: kbuild changes broke filenames with commas

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:16:10AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Well the question is then how will things look without commas? I suppose 
> if we have very complex things and prevent using commas whereas I don't 
> assert that we do for text but this is just a bloat example it's good to 
> have things like commas allowed even though we are in case we won't allow 
> them there talking about file names.
> 
> If we allow commas all over the filesystem and likewise say that there is 
> nothing to mention about it why should we refuse them for kbuild 
> especially since there is a parallel system which allows commas?

You've *completely* missed the point.

The gcc argument >>> -Wp,-MD,foo,bar.c <<< is the problem.  If anything
should be fixed, its that silly gcc syntax.  kbuild should not work
around the inability of gcc to accept filenames with commas in.

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