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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens•net>,
	Matt Brown <matthew.brown.dev@gmail•com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [v5 1/2] lib/raid6: Build proper files on corresponding arch
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:00:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fudasp7u.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmnysz34.fsf@linkitivity.dja.id.au>

Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens•net> writes:

> Hi Matt,
>
>> --- a/lib/raid6/test/Makefile
>> +++ b/lib/raid6/test/Makefile
>> @@ -44,10 +44,12 @@ else ifeq ($(HAS_NEON),yes)
>>          CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON=1
>>  else
>>          HAS_ALTIVEC := $(shell printf '\#include <altivec.h>\nvector int a;\n' |\
>> -                         gcc -c -x c - >&/dev/null && \
>> -                         rm ./-.o && echo yes)
>> +                         gcc -c -x c - >/dev/null && rm ./-.o && echo yes)
>
> From memory the change here (s/>&/>/) was necessary to get the build to
> succeed - did we ever figure out why that was? I'm not enough of a shell
> guru to grok the difference.

Using >& redirects stdout and stderr, whereas > only redirects stdout.

So possibly it doesn't fix anything, but rather lets you see any error
emitted by the compiler rather than swallowing it?

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-02  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-28  5:58 [v5 1/2] lib/raid6: Build proper files on corresponding arch Matt Brown
2017-04-28  5:58 ` [v5 2/2] raid6/altivec: Add vpermxor implementation for raid6 Q syndrome Matt Brown
2017-08-01 23:01   ` Daniel Axtens
2017-08-02  2:04     ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-02  0:20   ` Daniel Axtens
2017-08-04  1:40     ` Matt Brown
2017-08-01 22:27 ` [v5 1/2] lib/raid6: Build proper files on corresponding arch Daniel Axtens
2017-08-02  2:00   ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2017-08-04  1:33     ` Matt Brown

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