RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use `$(pound)` instead of `\#` for Make 4.3
From: David T-G > Sent: 09 February 2022 13:42 > > ...and then Wols Lists said... > % > % On 08/02/2022 15:21, Paul Menzel wrote: > ... > % > % As commented elsewhere, for the sake of us ENGLISH speakers, > % *PLEASE* make that $(hash). A pound sign is £. > > Or, even better, $(octothorpe) since that's merely a symbol rather than a > food product or a result of an algorithm on data. You might even hope > that we hash this out eventually ... I was more worried that people might think we should smoke the hash. The # symbol called 'hash' in the UK. Can't remember why - but it is used to mean 'number'. 'octothorpe' is some brain-damaged name and should be shot^Werased on sight. The whole UK v US confusion about what a 'pound' sign looks like almost certainly led to UK ascii using the £ glyph for 0x23. I can imaging a phone call where a US person said '0x23 is the pound sign'. I remember problems with ascii peripherals on a ebcdic mainframe where £ $ # and \ had to get squeezed into the three available codes. Not only was in semi-random what a line printer might print, we had 'page mode' terminals where the input and output translation tables didn't always match. David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)
Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use `$(pound)` instead of `\#` for Make 4.3
Paul, et al -- ...and then Wols Lists said... % % On 08/02/2022 15:21, Paul Menzel wrote: ... % % As commented elsewhere, for the sake of us ENGLISH speakers, % *PLEASE* make that $(hash). A pound sign is £. Or, even better, $(octothorpe) since that's merely a symbol rather than a food product or a result of an algorithm on data. You might even hope that we hash this out eventually ... Have a great day! :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use `$(pound)` instead of `\#` for Make 4.3
On 08/02/2022 15:21, Paul Menzel wrote: 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. As commented elsewhere, for the sake of us ENGLISH speakers, *PLEASE* make that $(hash). A pound sign is £. Cheers, Wol
Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use `$(pound)` instead of `\#` for Make 4.3
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 7:22 AM Paul Menzel wrote: > > Buidling `raid6test` on Ubuntu 21.10 (ppc64le) with GNU Make 4.3 shows the > errors below: > > $ cd lib/raid6/test/ > $ make > :1:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program > :1:2: error: stray ‘#’ in program > :1:11: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ > before ‘<’ token > cp -f ../int.uc int.uc > awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=1 < int.uc > int1.c > gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int1.o > int1.c > awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=2 < int.uc > int2.c > gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int2.o > int2.c > awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=4 < int.uc > int4.c > gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int4.o > int4.c > awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=8 < int.uc > int8.c > gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int8.o > int8.c > awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=16 < int.uc > int16.c > gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int16.o > int16.c > awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=32 < int.uc > int32.c > gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int32.o > int32.c > rm -f raid6.a > ar cq raid6.a int1.o int2.o int4.o int8.o int16.o int32.o recov.o algos.o > tables.o > ranlib raid6.a > gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -o raid6test > test.c raid6.a > /usr/bin/ld: raid6.a(algos.o):/dev/shm/linux/lib/raid6/test/algos.c:28: > multiple definition of `raid6_call'; > /scratch/local/ccIJjN8s.o:/dev/shm/linux/lib/raid6/test/test.c:22: first > defined here > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [Makefile:72: raid6test] Error 1 > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel I removed all the "`", fixed some unwrapped commit log, shortened some lines and applied the set to md-next. Please review that version and let me know if anything need to change. Thanks, Song
[PATCH v2 1/2] lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Use `$(pound)` instead of `\#` for Make 4.3
Buidling `raid6test` on Ubuntu 21.10 (ppc64le) with GNU Make 4.3 shows the errors below: $ cd lib/raid6/test/ $ make :1:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program :1:2: error: stray ‘#’ in program :1:11: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘<’ token cp -f ../int.uc int.uc awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=1 < int.uc > int1.c gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int1.o int1.c awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=2 < int.uc > int2.c gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int2.o int2.c awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=4 < int.uc > int4.c gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int4.o int4.c awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=8 < int.uc > int8.c gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int8.o int8.c awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=16 < int.uc > int16.c gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int16.o int16.c awk -f ../unroll.awk -vN=32 < int.uc > int32.c gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -c -o int32.o int32.c rm -f raid6.a ar cq raid6.a int1.o int2.o int4.o int8.o int16.o int32.o recov.o algos.o tables.o ranlib raid6.a gcc -I.. -I ../../../include -g -O2 -o raid6test test.c raid6.a /usr/bin/ld: raid6.a(algos.o):/dev/shm/linux/lib/raid6/test/algos.c:28: multiple definition of `raid6_call'; /scratch/local/ccIJjN8s.o:/dev/shm/linux/lib/raid6/test/test.c:22: first defined here collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [Makefile:72: raid6test] Error 1 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 Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Fix checkpatch.pl errors by adding missing quotes around git commit message summary/title. 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 a4c7cd74cff5..4fb7700a741b 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 $(OPTFLAGS) @@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ else ifeq ($(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 \nvector int a;\n' |\ +HAS_ALTIVEC := $(shell printf '$(pound)include \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