On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 7:31 AM Kevin Locke <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In 22f26f21774f8 awk was added to deduplicate *.mod files. The awk > invocation passes -v RS='( |\n)' to match a space or newline character > as the record separator. Unfortunately, POSIX states[1] > > > If RS contains more than one character, the results are unspecified. > > Some implementations (such as the One True Awk[2] used by the BSDs) do > not treat RS as a regular expression. When awk does not support regex > RS, build failures such as the following are produced (first error using > allmodconfig): > > CC [M] arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.o > CC [M] arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_nhmex.o > CC [M] arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.o > CC [M] arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.o > CC [M] arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_discovery.o > LD [M] arch/x86/events/intel/intel-uncore.o > ld: cannot find uncore_nhmex.o: No such file or directory > ld: cannot find uncore_snb.o: No such file or directory > ld: cannot find uncore_snbep.o: No such file or directory > ld: cannot find uncore_discovery.o: No such file or directory > make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:422: arch/x86/events/intel/intel-uncore.o] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:487: arch/x86/events/intel] Error 2 > make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:487: arch/x86/events] Error 2 > make: *** [Makefile:1839: arch/x86] Error 2 > > To avoid this, use printf(1) to produce a newline between each object > path, instead of the space produced by echo(1), so that the default RS > can be used by awk. > > [1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html > [2]: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk > > Fixes: 22f26f21774f ("kbuild: get rid of duplication in *.mod files") > Signed-off-by: Kevin Locke <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> # LLVM-14 (x86-64) -Sedat- > --- > scripts/Makefile.build | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build > index 1f01ac65c0cd..cac070aee791 100644 > --- a/scripts/Makefile.build > +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build > @@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ $(obj)/%.o: $(src)/%.c $(recordmcount_source) FORCE > > # 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) }' > $@ > > $(obj)/%.mod: FORCE > $(call if_changed,mod) > -- > 2.35.1 >