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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev-009: Allow build with empty EXTRAS
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:04:06PM -0500, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> Need to let the shell expand $EXTRAS so it can properly detect an empty
> list. Without this patch, the build fails whenever $EXTRAS is empty.

$ export EXTRAS=
$ make
$ set | grep EXTRA
EXTRAS=
$ 

I can't duplicate this problem at all.  Someone else once reported it on
the linux-hotplug-devel list, with much the same fix up patch, but later
said they couldn't reproduce it either.

What version of make are you using?

works for me :)

thanks,

greg k-h