On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 05:01:57PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: >> On 2014-08-06 14:19, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: >> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 2014-07-26 18:35, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: >> >>> This already has been fixed in commit c353acba28fb3fa1fd05fd >> >>> ("kbuild: make: fix if_changed when command contains backslashes") >> >>> but escaping still isn't perfect and triggers false-positive rebuilds. >> >>> >> >>> For x86 problem happens every time, because rules in arch/x86/realmode/rm/ >> >>> and arch/x86/boot/ contains commands like sed -n -e 's/foo\(.*\)/\1/p'. >> >>> Backslash in \1 isn't escaped and turns into ascii symbol with code 1. >> >>> Macro if_changed detects command change and rebuilds target again and again. >> >>> >> >>> Backslash escaping conflicts with other passes because it's used for escaping >> >>> other symbols. To avoid that current macro handles only double backslashes. >> >>> Obviously this doesn't work for \1 like above. >> >>> >> >>> This patch reorders passes. It doubles all backslashes before escaping # and ' >> >>> >> >>> Visible effect in rebuilding x86/defconfig without changes, before patch: >> >>> >> >>> blind@zurg:~/src/linux$ make V=2 >> >>> CHK include/config/kernel.release >> >>> CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h >> >>> CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h >> >>> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh - due to target missing >> >>> CHK include/generated/compile.h >> >>> PASYMS arch/x86/realmode/rm/pasyms.h - due to command line change >> >> >> >> With which make and shell version are you seeing this? While the patch >> >> looks correct, I can't reproduce the error here: >> > >> > /bin/sh points to dash (debian default setup). >> > >> > I cannot reproduce this using bash. That explains why this bug is still here. >> >> So the difference between the shells is that their 'echo' builtin treats >> \<number> differently: >> $ ./dash -c "echo '\2'" >> >> $ ./dash -c "echo '\2'" | xxd >> 0000000: 020a .. >> $ /bin/bash -c "echo '\2'" >> \2 > > The problem is that the bash echo does not interpred _any_ \-sequences > without -e. So the nicely escaped \\ stays a \\ and we get spurious > rebuilds with bash instead. It previously worked with bash, because the > backslash escaping was completely broken. You not only moved it up in > the chain, but also fixed it by removing one superflous level of > escaping. > > I'm now testing this, i.e. dropping the backslash escaping completely > and doing a printf '%s\n' instead. Can you try if it works for you? Yes, it works. I completely forgot about printf, it's much more reliable than echo. So, you can add my Acked-by/Tested-by > > > diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include > index 122f95c..8a9a4e1 100644 > --- a/scripts/Kbuild.include > +++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include > @@ -215,11 +215,13 @@ else > arg-check = $(if $(strip $(cmd_$@)),,1) > endif > > -# >'< substitution is for echo to work, > -# >$< substitution to preserve $ when reloading .cmd file > -# note: when using inline perl scripts [perl -e '...$$t=1;...'] > -# in $(cmd_xxx) double $$ your perl vars > -make-cmd = $(subst \\,\\\\,$(subst \#,\\\#,$(subst $$,$$$$,$(call escsq,$(cmd_$(1)))))) > +# Replace >$< with >$$< to preserve $ when reloading the .cmd file > +# (needed for make) > +# Replace >#< with >\#< to avoid starting a comment in the .cmd file > +# (needed for make) > +# Replace >'< with >'\''< to be able to enclose the whole string in '...' > +# (needed for the shell) > +make-cmd = $(call escsq,$(subst \#,\\\#,$(subst $$,$$$$,$(cmd_$(1))))) > > # Find any prerequisites that is newer than target or that does not exist. > # PHONY targets skipped in both cases. > @@ -230,7 +232,7 @@ any-prereq = $(filter-out $(PHONY),$?) $(filter-out $(PHONY) $(wildcard $^),$^) > if_changed = $(if $(strip $(any-prereq) $(arg-check)), \ > @set -e; \ > $(echo-cmd) $(cmd_$(1)); \ > - echo 'cmd_$@ := $(make-cmd)' > $(dot-target).cmd) > + printf '%s\n' 'cmd_$@ := $(make-cmd)' > $(dot-target).cmd) > > # Execute the command and also postprocess generated .d dependencies file. > if_changed_dep = $(if $(strip $(any-prereq) $(arg-check) ), \ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html