Re: Set environment variable `KVM` makes build fail

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 10:45:11AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Zhouyi,
> 
> 
> Am 13.02.22 um 09:07 schrieb Zhouyi Zhou:, and
> 
> > Thank you for your trust in me.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> > I think the following patch has a good explanation of what happened ;-)
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/torture.sh?id=a7d89cfb8e1269cb6d22453adba56b8d0218589f
> > "The torture-test scripting's long-standing use of KVM as the
> > environment variable tracking the pathname of the rcutorture directory
> > now conflicts with allmodconfig builds due to the
> > virt/kvm/Makefile.kvm file's use of this as a makefile variable"
> 
> Indeed. In my script I had added the remote for the rcu git archive, but
> forgot to actually fetch the objects and refs, and missed the error message
> in the output.
> 
> Sorry for the noise, though the variable name should probably namespaced, as
> at least for the name `KVM` the chance are higher (still very small) that
> it’s set in the environment.

In -rcu and -next, it is now named "RCUTORTURE".  But if there are
other rcutorture environment variables in need of namespacing, please
let me know.

							Thanx, Paul



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