GCC 5.1 defines __REGISTER_PREFIX__ to $. This will break sparse command line (and build fails with: /bin/sh: syntax error: unexpected "(") since make tries to expand starting with the dollar sign with a make variable. Prevent that by using double dollar sign. Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> --- arch/mips/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile index 5200f64..ae2dd59 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Makefile +++ b/arch/mips/Makefile @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ LDFLAGS += -m $(ld-emul) ifdef CONFIG_MIPS CHECKFLAGS += $(shell $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -dM -E -x c /dev/null | \ egrep -vw '__GNUC_(|MINOR_|PATCHLEVEL_)_' | \ - sed -e "s/^\#define /-D'/" -e "s/ /'='/" -e "s/$$/'/") + sed -e "s/^\#define /-D'/" -e "s/ /'='/" -e "s/$$/'/" -e 's/\$$/&&/g') ifdef CONFIG_64BIT CHECKFLAGS += -m64 endif -- 2.4.0