Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

[Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>]

[Kai Germaschewski]
> However, I don't think it's hard to verify that my patch works as
> well, it's about ten lines added to Rules.make.  It's particularly
> easy to verify that it doesn't change behavior for objects listed in
> $(list-multi) at all.

Yes, we can say this, but people are right to be paranoid.  Remember
that the first version of your patch (several months ago) required a
particular version of GNU Make....

I submitted a cleanup patch for 2.2.18pre that was 100% safe in that it
just made use of a script that was already in the tree
(scripts/kwhich).  But sure enough, it broke for users of older Red Hat
installations who were still on bash 1.x.  It seems scripts/kwhich
hadn't been used that way before, so nobody had noticed that it didn't
work with bash 1.

That said, I think your current version is in fact bug-free and if it
were up to me I would put it in the tree.  But I also understand why
others are hesitant to trust it.  The bugs it fixes are fairly minor,
after all.

Peter