2010-04-26 20:56:55

by Jason Wessel

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Subject: [PATCH] Correctly deal with make that has an argument which contains an "s"

When using remake, which is based on gnumake, if you invoke
an example build as shown below, the build will become silent
due to the top level make file incorrectly guessing that
the end user wants a silent build because an argument that
contained an "s" was used.

remake --no-extended-errors

Fix up the top level Makefile to use filter with a list of
options that mean silent with the various revisions of gnumake,
instead of findstring.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
CC: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
---
Makefile | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fa1db90..91ae299 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ endif
# If the user is running make -s (silent mode), suppress echoing of
# commands

-ifneq ($(findstring s,$(MAKEFLAGS)),)
+ifneq ($(filter s% -s% --silent --quiet,$(MAKEFLAGS)),)
quiet=silent_
endif

--
1.6.3.3


2010-04-27 05:54:12

by Cong Wang

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Correctly deal with make that has an argument which contains an "s"

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Jason Wessel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> When using remake, which is based on gnumake, if you invoke
> an example build as shown below, the build will become silent
> due to the top level make file incorrectly guessing that
> the end user wants a silent build because an argument that
> contained an "s" was used.
>
> remake --no-extended-errors
>
> Fix up the top level Makefile to use filter with a list of
> options that mean silent with the various revisions of gnumake,
> instead of findstring.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
> CC: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
> CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]


Acked-by: WANG Cong <[email protected]>

Thanks.


> ---
>  Makefile |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index fa1db90..91ae299 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ endif
>  # If the user is running make -s (silent mode), suppress echoing of
>  # commands
>
> -ifneq ($(findstring s,$(MAKEFLAGS)),)
> +ifneq ($(filter s% -s% --silent --quiet,$(MAKEFLAGS)),)
>   quiet=silent_
>  endif
>
> --
> 1.6.3.3
>
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2010-04-27 11:47:29

by Michal Marek

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Correctly deal with make that has an argument which contains an "s"

On 26.4.2010 22:56, Jason Wessel wrote:
> When using remake, which is based on gnumake, if you invoke
> an example build as shown below, the build will become silent
> due to the top level make file incorrectly guessing that
> the end user wants a silent build because an argument that
> contained an "s" was used.
>
> remake --no-extended-errors

BTW, make --warn-undefined-variables also triggers this (although no one
will use this option on the kernel makefiles).


> Fix up the top level Makefile to use filter with a list of
> options that mean silent with the various revisions of gnumake,
> instead of findstring.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
> CC: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
> CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> ---
> Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index fa1db90..91ae299 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ endif
> # If the user is running make -s (silent mode), suppress echoing of
> # commands
>
> -ifneq ($(findstring s,$(MAKEFLAGS)),)
> +ifneq ($(filter s% -s% --silent --quiet,$(MAKEFLAGS)),)

I played a bit with GNU make 3.81. Checking for --silent and --quiet is
not necessary, because make always stores the short option if available.
Now I was wondering if the 's' option is always at the beginning,
looking at make-3.81/main.c, it turns out that the order in which the
options appear in $(MAKEFLAGS) is the reverse order of the switches
array, where 's' is near the end of the array:

{ 's', flag, (char *) &silent_flag, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, "silent" },
^ store in $(MAKEFLAGS)?
{ 'S', flag_off, (char *) &keep_going_flag, 1, 1, 0, 0,
(char *) &default_keep_going_flag, "no-keep-going" },
{ 't', flag, (char *) &touch_flag, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, "touch" },
{ 'v', flag, (char *) &print_version_flag, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, "version" },
{ 'w', flag, (char *) &print_directory_flag, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0,
"print-directory" },
{ CHAR_MAX+3, flag, (char *) &inhibit_print_directory_flag, 1, 1, 0,
0, 0,
"no-print-directory" },
{ 'W', string, (char *) &new_files, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, "what-if" },
{ CHAR_MAX+4, flag, (char *) &warn_undefined_variables_flag, 1, 1,
0, 0, 0,
"warn-undefined-variables" },
{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }


The only other single-letter options that come after 's' (before 's' in
the $(MAKEFLAGS) variable) are 't', which doesn't work with the kernel,
and 'w', which doesn't work either (the Makefile adds
--no-print-directory). So we can indeed get away with s% and -s% (until
the next make version changes the sort order, that is ;)).

Michal