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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/tools: Don't quote $objdump in scripts
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:55:03 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgnabg88.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191024172857.GS28442@gate.crashing.org>

Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:47:30AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Some of our scripts are passed $objdump and then call it as
>> "$objdump". This doesn't work if it contains spaces because we're
>> using ccache, for example you get errors such as:
>> 
>>   ./arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh: line 48: ccache ppc64le-objdump: No such file or directory
>>   ./arch/powerpc/tools/unrel_branch_check.sh: line 26: ccache ppc64le-objdump: No such file or directory
>> 
>> Fix it by not quoting the string when we expand it, allowing the shell
>> to do the right thing for us.
>
> This breaks things for people with spaces in their paths.

Spaces in their what? Who does that? :)

Also we don't support it:

  $ pwd
  $ /home/michael/foo bar
  $ make clean
  Makefile:147: *** source directory cannot contain spaces or colons.  Stop.

cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-30 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-24  0:47 [PATCH] powerpc/tools: Don't quote $objdump in scripts Michael Ellerman
2019-10-24 17:28 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-10-25  8:53   ` David Laight
2019-10-30 11:55   ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2019-10-30 23:27     ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-07  3:45 ` Michael Ellerman

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