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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] makesystem: revive cscope target
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:46:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <493FBA3B.5010801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081210124120.GA12784@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On 12/10/2008 01:41 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:10:13PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> - export src and obj, so that we can check them in tags.sh
>> - don't allow * expansion during sh function calls
> 
> What benefit does this patch give us?
> We do not use $obj neither $src in tags.sh.

I'm confused...

git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next.git
says:
# Do not use full path is we do not use O=.. builds
if [ ${src} == ${obj} ]; then
        tree=
else
        tree=${srctree}
fi
in scripts/tags.sh.

> Likewise we do not pass it non-expanded parameters.

We do inside the script. Try to touch XYZ.S in your build tree, the tags.sh
won't work then.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-10 12:10 [PATCH 1/1] makesystem: revive cscope target Jiri Slaby
2008-12-10 12:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-10 12:46   ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2008-12-10 13:00     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-10 12:59       ` Jiri Slaby
2008-12-13 23:13 ` Sam Ravnborg

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