[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 12/16] lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use $(pound) instead of \# for Make 4.3

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>,
	Matt Brown <matthew.brown.dev@gmail.com>,
	Song Liu <song@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 12/16] lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use $(pound) instead of \# for Make 4.3
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 07:23:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220328112345.1556601-12-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220328112345.1556601-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>

[ 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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 lib/raid6/test/Makefile | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/raid6/test/Makefile b/lib/raid6/test/Makefile
index b9e6c3648be1..98b9fd0354dd 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 $(OPTFLAGS)
@@ -47,7 +49,7 @@ else ifeq ($(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
-- 
2.34.1

