4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 9feeb638cde083c737e295c0547f1b4f28e99583 upstream. In 2016 GNU Make made a backwards incompatible change to the way '#' characters were handled in Makefiles when used inside functions or macros: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=c6966b323811c37acedff05b57 Due to this change, when attempting to run `make prepare' I get a spurious make syntax error: /home/earnest/linux/tools/objtool/.fixdep.o.cmd:1: *** missing separator. Stop. When inspecting `.fixdep.o.cmd' it includes two lines which use unescaped comment characters at the top: \# cannot find fixdep (/home/earnest/linux/tools/objtool//fixdep) \# using basic dep data This is because `tools/build/Build.include' prints these '\#' characters: printf '\# cannot find fixdep (%s)\n' $(fixdep) > $(dot-target).cmd; \ printf '\# using basic dep data\n\n' >> $(dot-target).cmd; \ This completes commit 9564a8cf422d ("Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make"). Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197847 Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/build/Build.include | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/tools/build/Build.include +++ b/tools/build/Build.include @@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ dep-cmd = $(if $(wildcard $(fixdep)), $(fixdep) $(depfile) $@ '$(make-cmd)' > $(dot-target).tmp; \ rm -f $(depfile); \ mv -f $(dot-target).tmp $(dot-target).cmd, \ - printf '\# cannot find fixdep (%s)\n' $(fixdep) > $(dot-target).cmd; \ - printf '\# using basic dep data\n\n' >> $(dot-target).cmd; \ + printf '$(pound) cannot find fixdep (%s)\n' $(fixdep) > $(dot-target).cmd; \ + printf '$(pound) using basic dep data\n\n' >> $(dot-target).cmd; \ cat $(depfile) >> $(dot-target).cmd; \ printf '%s\n' 'cmd_$@ := $(make-cmd)' >> $(dot-target).cmd)
