2017-10-02 20:27 GMT+09:00 Julien Grall <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> On 02/10/17 09:07, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>
>> I thought commit 8e9b46679923 ("kbuild: use $(abspath ...) instead of
>> $(shell cd ... && /bin/pwd)") was a safe conversion, but it changed
>> the behavior.
>>
>> $(abspath ...) / $(realpath ...) does not expand shell special
>> characters, such as '~'.
>>
>> Here is a simple Makefile example:
>>
>>    ---------------->8----------------
>>    $(info /bin/pwd: $(shell cd ~/; /bin/pwd))
>>    $(info abspath: $(abspath ~/))
>>    $(info realpath: $(realpath ~/))
>>    all:
>>            @:
>>    ---------------->8----------------
>>
>>    $ make
>>    /bin/pwd: /home/masahiro
>>    abspath: /home/masahiro/workspace/~
>>    realpath:
>>
>> This can be a real problem if 'make O=~/foo' is invoked from another
>> Makefile or primitive shell like dash.
>>
>> This commit partially reverts 8e9b46679923.
>>
>> Fixes: 8e9b46679923 ("kbuild: use $(abspath ...) instead of $(shell cd ...
>> && /bin/pwd)")
>> Reported-by: Julien Grall <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
>
>
> Tested-by: Julien Grall <[email protected]>


Applied to linux-kbuild/fixes.


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada

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