This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use $(pound) instead of \# for Make 4.3 to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: lib-raid6-test-makefile-use-pound-instead-of-for-mak.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a53263da104df97a4bc20aeacbb2ef38ba596991 Author: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Feb 8 16:21:48 2022 +0100 lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use $(pound) instead of \# for Make 4.3 [ Upstream commit 633174a7046ec3b4572bec24ef98e6ee89bce14b ] Buidling raid6test on Ubuntu 21.10 (ppc64le) with GNU Make 4.3 shows the errors below: $ cd lib/raid6/test/ $ make <stdin>:1:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program <stdin>:1:2: error: stray ‘#’ in program <stdin>:1:11: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ \ before ‘<’ token [...] The errors come from the HAS_ALTIVEC test, which fails, and the POWER optimized versions are not built. That’s also reason nobody noticed on the other architectures. GNU Make 4.3 does not remove the backslash anymore. From the 4.3 release announcment: > * WARNING: Backward-incompatibility! > Number signs (#) appearing inside a macro reference or function invocation > no longer introduce comments and should not be escaped with backslashes: > thus a call such as: > foo := $(shell echo '#') > is legal. Previously the number sign needed to be escaped, for example: > foo := $(shell echo '\#') > Now this latter will resolve to "\#". If you want to write makefiles > portable to both versions, assign the number sign to a variable: > H := \# > foo := $(shell echo '$H') > This was claimed to be fixed in 3.81, but wasn't, for some reason. > To detect this change search for 'nocomment' in the .FEATURES variable. So, do the same as commit 9564a8cf422d ("Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make") and commit 929bef467771 ("bpf: Use $(pound) instead of \# in Makefiles") and define and use a $(pound) variable. Reference for the change in make: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=c6966b323811c37acedff05b57 Cc: Matt Brown <matthew.brown.dev@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/lib/raid6/test/Makefile b/lib/raid6/test/Makefile index a4c7cd74cff5..4fb7700a741b 100644 --- a/lib/raid6/test/Makefile +++ b/lib/raid6/test/Makefile @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ # from userspace. # +pound := \# + CC = gcc OPTFLAGS = -O2 # Adjust as desired CFLAGS = -I.. -I ../../../include -g $(OPTFLAGS) @@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ else ifeq ($(HAS_NEON),yes) OBJS += neon.o neon1.o neon2.o neon4.o neon8.o recov_neon.o recov_neon_inner.o CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON=1 else - HAS_ALTIVEC := $(shell printf '\#include <altivec.h>\nvector int a;\n' |\ + HAS_ALTIVEC := $(shell printf '$(pound)include <altivec.h>\nvector int a;\n' |\ gcc -c -x c - >/dev/null && rm ./-.o && echo yes) ifeq ($(HAS_ALTIVEC),yes) CFLAGS += -I../../../arch/powerpc/include