Thanks, for the suggestion and the patch! I agree it's much better with your proposed change (and it gets mkutf8data out of your hair :-) I did need to make one change to your patch in order for it to work correctly with a build directory. That is, to support make -O /build/ext4 REGENERATE_UTF8DATA=1 fs/unicode/ I'll apply it to the ext4 git tree with this change. - Ted diff --git a/fs/unicode/Makefile b/fs/unicode/Makefile index 1a109b7a1da9..45955264ac04 100644 --- a/fs/unicode/Makefile +++ b/fs/unicode/Makefile @@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ $(obj)/utf8-norm.o: $(obj)/utf8data.h quiet_cmd_utf8data = GEN $@ cmd_utf8data = $(obj)/mkutf8data \ - -a $(src)/DerivedAge.txt \ - -c $(src)/DerivedCombiningClass.txt \ - -p $(src)/DerivedCoreProperties.txt \ - -d $(src)/UnicodeData.txt \ - -f $(src)/CaseFolding.txt \ - -n $(src)/NormalizationCorrections.txt \ - -t $(src)/NormalizationTest.txt \ + -a $(srctree)/$(src)/DerivedAge.txt \ + -c $(srctree)/$(src)/DerivedCombiningClass.txt \ + -p $(srctree)/$(src)/DerivedCoreProperties.txt \ + -d $(srctree)/$(src)/UnicodeData.txt \ + -f $(srctree)/$(src)/CaseFolding.txt \ + -n $(srctree)/$(src)/NormalizationCorrections.txt \ + -t $(srctree)/$(src)/NormalizationTest.txt \ -o $@ $(obj)/utf8data.h: $(filter %.txt, $(cmd_utf8data)) $(obj)/mkutf8data FORCE