Re: [PATCH] arm64: vdso: Fix Makefile regression

[Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 2:54 PM Vincenzo Frascino
<vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> wrote:
>
> Using an old .config in combination with "make oldconfig" can cause
> an incorrect detection of the compat compiler:
>
> $ grep CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT .config
> CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO=""
>
> $ make oldconfig && make
> arch/arm64/Makefile:58: gcc not found, check CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT.
> Stop.
>
> Accordingly to the section 7.2 of the GNU Make manual "Syntax of
> Conditionals", "When the value results from complex expansions of
> variables and functions, expansions you would consider empty may
> actually contain whitespace characters and thus are not seen as
> empty. However, you can use the strip function to avoid interpreting
> whitespace as a non-empty value."
>
> Fix the issue adding strip to the CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT string
> evaluation.
>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Reported-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
> index bb1f1dbb34e8..61de992bbea3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO), y)
>
>    ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG), y)
>      $(warning CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT is clang, the compat vDSO will not be built)
> -  else ifeq ($(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT),)
> +  else ifeq ($(strip $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)),)
>      $(warning CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT not defined or empty, the compat vDSO will not be built)
>    else ifeq ($(shell which $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)gcc 2> /dev/null),)
>      $(error $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)gcc not found, check CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)
> --
> 2.22.0
>

Tested-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>

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