Re: [LTP] LTP 20091031 Makefiles totally broken?!?

[Andi K. <an...@fi...>]

> $(abspath $(FOO)) only exists in 3.81+, along with some of the other
> built-in functions IIRC. Replacing $(abspath ) with $(shell readlink
> -f "$(FOO)" 2>/dev/null) is possible, but there are some associated
> issues with that solution:
> 
> 1. They must have readlink
> 1. It may fail if their shell is toast (in this case, they're kind of SoL).
> 2. It may fail if their's a bug (that's my job to fix).
> 
> It's bad practice to use $(shell ) because it also consumes a lot more
> resources allocating a separate shell, and all that badness associated
> with it.

With := it's probably not too bad to call the shell.
> 
> If $(patsubst ) is toast, then I'll have to replace it with $(shell )
> call to awk or perl.

As a datapoint the kernel uses patsubst and afaik it builds with 3.80

> I really do appreciate the feedback. As I stated before though, 3.80
> is where we need to draw the line in the sand, because 3.79 is a
> buggy, ancient PoS, so RHEL 4 users and other users of distros around
> that era will _need_ to compile 3.80, or 3.81 and install it on their
> target systems.

At least for me that works, but I don't speak for RHEL4 users.

-Andi
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