Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 2/2] arm/arm64 config: Fix arch_clean rule

[Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 03:35:19PM +0200, Alexander Spyridakis wrote:
> On 4 September 2015 at 16:05, Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> wrote:
> > This doesn't reproduce for me. I did the following, and it worked
> > fine.
> >
> > make distclean
> > ./configure --arch=arm --cross-prefix=arm-linux-gnu-
> > make
> > ./configure --arch=arm64 --cross-prefix=aarch64-linux-gnu-
> > make clean && make
> 
> Ok I think I found the issue:
> 
> config-arm-common.mak:
> >arm_clean: libfdt_clean asm_offsets_clean
> >    $(RM) $(TEST_DIR)/*.{o,flat,elf} $(libeabi) $(eabiobjs) \
> >          $(TEST_DIR)/.*.d lib/arm/.*.d
> 
> config-x86-common.mak:
> >arch_clean:
> >    $(RM) $(TEST_DIR)/*.o $(TEST_DIR)/*.flat $(TEST_DIR)/*.elf \
> >    $(TEST_DIR)/.*.d lib/x86/.*.d
> 
> I think the arm case tries to be too clever and on many systems it
> fails (tested on debian:jessie,sid and ubuntu:14.04,15.04). Basically
> the expression for the arm case fails to resolve, while using the
> simpler x86 way works as expected.
> 
> So is the following change acceptable in config-arm-common.mak?
> > arm_clean: libfdt_clean asm_offsets_clean
> >-       $(RM) $(TEST_DIR)/*.{o,flat,elf} $(libeabi) $(eabiobjs) \
> >-             $(TEST_DIR)/.*.d lib/arm/.*.d
> >+       $(RM) $(TEST_DIR)/*.o $(TEST_DIR)/*.flat $(TEST_DIR)/*.elf \
> >+               $(libeabi) $(eabiobjs) $(TEST_DIR)/.*.d lib/arm/.*.d

Ah, it's a dash vs. bash thing. Either we need to change all bashisms
in the makefiles, or, since kvm-unit-tests already depends on bash for
its scripts, then we might as well just tell make to use it too.  This
patch will fix it

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0d5933474cd8c..3e60b4f8e4a57 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 
+SHELL := /bin/bash
+
 ifeq ($(wildcard config.mak),)
 $(error run ./configure first. See ./configure -h)
 endif

I'll probably submit the patch in a second.

Thanks for hunting down the problem!

drew