On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 4:43 PM David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Kevin Locke
> > Sent: 07 June 2022 03:43
> >
> > In 22f26f21774f8 awk was added to deduplicate *.mod files.
>
> Can't this be done with gmake's $(sort) function?
>
> $(sort list)
>
> Sorts the words of list in lexical order, removing duplicate words.
> The output is a list of words separated by single spaces.
$(sort ...) does two things,
- sort the list alphabetically
- deduplicate the elements in the list
I want to do only deduplication
without changing the order.
>
> ...
> > # To make this rule robust against "Argument list too long" error,
> > # ensure to add $(obj)/ prefix by a shell command.
> > -cmd_mod = echo $(call real-search, $*.o, .o, -objs -y -m) | \
> > - $(AWK) -v RS='( |\n)' '!x[$$0]++ { print("$(obj)/"$$0) }' > $@
> > +cmd_mod = printf '%s\n' $(call real-search, $*.o, .o, -objs -y -m) | \
> > + $(AWK) '!x[$$0]++ { print("$(obj)/"$$0) }' > $@
>
> I think the above only works because 'printf' is (usually) a
> shell builtin - so the kernel's argv[] limit doesn't apply.
> So the comment isn't really right.
Is there any difference if 'printf' were not built-in?
Right, for bash and dash, yes, 'printf' is built-in,
and we do not need to be worried about
"Argument list too long", but
I am not sure if we are able to cover all the systems.
> But I think:
>
> cmd_mod = $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(sort $(call real-search, $*.o, .o, -objs -y -m))) >$@
>
> will have the required effect.
I think 'echo' is missing here.
As I noted above, I do not want to change the order.
> Without forking and execing multiple processes.
>
> David
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