Rather than trying to guess which implementation of "echo" to run with
support for "-ne" options, use "printf" instead of "echo -ne". It
handles escape characters as a standard feature and it is widespread
among modern shells.
Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" <bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 3297a4df805d ("kselftests: Enable the echo command to print newlines in Makefile")
Fixes: 79c16b1120fe ("selftests: find echo binary to use -ne options")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Notes:
v2: use printf insead of $(which echo)
v3: rebase on top of fix with $(which echo)
tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
index 9619d0f3b2ff..06578963f4f1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
@@ -234,11 +234,10 @@ ifdef INSTALL_PATH
@# While building kselftest-list.text skip also non-existent TARGET dirs:
@# they could be the result of a build failure and should NOT be
@# included in the generated runlist.
- ECHO=`which echo`; \
for TARGET in $(TARGETS); do \
BUILD_TARGET=$$BUILD/$$TARGET; \
- [ ! -d $(INSTALL_PATH)/$$TARGET ] && $$ECHO "Skipping non-existent dir: $$TARGET" && continue; \
- $$ECHO -ne "Emit Tests for $$TARGET\n"; \
+ [ ! -d $(INSTALL_PATH)/$$TARGET ] && printf "Skipping non-existent dir: $$TARGET\n" && continue; \
+ printf "Emit Tests for $$TARGET\n"; \
$(MAKE) -s --no-print-directory OUTPUT=$$BUILD_TARGET COLLECTION=$$TARGET \
-C $$TARGET emit_tests >> $(TEST_LIST); \
done;
--
2.30.2
