Hi Ben, 2017-04-23 16:23 GMT+09:00 Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, 2017-04-23 at 15:47 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > [...] >> I tested dtbs_install once again by myself, but >> dtbinst-root is exported to the sub make >> and the vendor directories are created correctly. >> >> >> I checked the debian's forum you gave >> > References: https://bugs.debian.org/833561 >> >> In there, you mentioned: >> "This looks like a bug in make, but we can at least work around it by >> using a non-hyphenated variable name." >> >> >> Does this issue happen on a specific Make version? >> >> I tested GNU make 3.81, 3.82, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, >> but I was not hit by the problem. > > I don't think this is make version dependent. I can't reproduce the > issue today with make 4.1. But I would have been using the same > version in August when I wrote that. > > What more can I say? Clearly the hyphenated variable gets passed to > the sub-make in most cases. But it's not totally reliable because last > year it wasn't working for us. > >> In the last post in the thread, you concluded: >> "We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of >> linux, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive." > > I didn't write that, it's a standard message generated for bugs marked > as closed in a package changelog. :-) > >> If so, why is this patch here? >> How is the dtbs_install procedure different in the Debian package? > > This is the patch I applied to the package. > Do you still need this patch for Debian? If so, I can pick it up because it is apparently harmless (maybe safer as you said). However, I may add the following excuse in the git-log: [masahiro I cound not reproduce the issue, but at least this patch is harmless.] -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada -- 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
