>>> On 08.08.14 at 15:20, <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2014-08-07 09:58, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> It looks like commit 5180d5f483 ("firmware: Simplify directory
>> creation") uncovered a latent bug: The cmd_fwbin make macro, which is
>> being called without any arguments, referenced argument 2, which I
>> suppose previously just happened to be set to the right value (from an
>> enclosing macro invocation - some make versions don't always properly
>> clear unused macro arguments on nested macro invocations). In 3.16 with
>> such make versions it now points into the source tree instead,
>> resulting in build failure when building outside the source tree. And
>> obviously on make versions properly clearing unused arguments it would
>> have resolved to empty.
>
> With which make version are you seeing the error?
3.80 and 3.81, albeit with the latter I can't construct a simple
repro Makefile to demonstrate the problem (hence the mentioning
of "make versions" _and_ "don't always").
Jan
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