Hi Dominique, On 12/1/20 1:17 PM, Dominique Martinet wrote: > /usr/bin/awk is not garanteed to exist (and doesn't on e.g. nixos), > using /usr/bin/env to have it look in PATH is more robust > This patch breaks the compilation on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 in fact: make[1]: Entering directory '/data1/Projects/LinuxKernel/linux-out' GEN Makefile HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/confdata.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/expr.o LEX scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c YACC scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.[ch] HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/preprocess.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/symbol.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/util.o HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf *** Default configuration is based on 'defconfig' /usr/bin/env: invalid option -- 'S' Try '/usr/bin/env --help' for more information. init/Kconfig:39: syntax error init/Kconfig:38: invalid statement /data1/Projects/LinuxKernel/linux-mte/scripts/kconfig/Makefile:80: recipe for target 'defconfig' failed make[2]: *** [defconfig] Error 1 /data1/Projects/LinuxKernel/linux-mte/Makefile:602: recipe for target 'defconfig' failed make[1]: *** [defconfig] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/data1/Projects/LinuxKernel/linux-out' Makefile:185: recipe for target '__sub-make' failed make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2 The problem seems to be that the minimum version of env that supports '-S' is 8.30. Reverting the patch fixes the issue. Thanks! > Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > I've been carrying these two patchs for local kernel development on > nixos for a while, I don't think it'd break anything for anyone so > might as well submit these -- please consider it :) > > scripts/ld-version.sh | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh > index f2be0ff9a738..05476b8f8925 100755 > --- a/scripts/ld-version.sh > +++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > -#!/usr/bin/awk -f > +#!/usr/bin/env -S awk -f > # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number > { > -- Regards, Vincenzo