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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: Use builtin $(abspath ...) instead of $(shell cd ... && pwd)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:05:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160418150535.GA22979@ulmo.ba.sec> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5714F35D.5050603@suse.com>

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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 04:46:53PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 2016-04-08 11:15, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> > 
> > Avoid forking off a shell to resolve the absolute path of the output
> > directory when make's builtin $(abspath ...) function will do an
> > adequate job.
> 
> The abspath function is not available in make 3.80.

Do we really support make 3.80? It was released in 2002 and 3.81
followed in April 2006. That makes it a decade old now. I'd be surprised
if anyone was still using it to build recent kernels.

Is there a formal process for increasing the dependencies listed in
Documentation/Changes? Should I simply make that change as part of this
patch? Do we need broad approval?

Thierry

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-18 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-08  9:15 [PATCH] tools: Use builtin $(abspath ...) instead of $(shell cd ... && pwd) Thierry Reding
2016-04-18 14:46 ` Michal Marek
2016-04-18 15:05   ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2016-04-18 15:17     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2016-04-18 15:32       ` Thierry Reding
2017-05-19  2:07         ` Masahiro Yamada

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