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From: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Subject: Re: oom-killer problem
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:37:34 +0200
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On Wednesday 28 June 2006 03.42, Keith Owens wrote:
> Linus Torvalds (on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:15:46 -0700 (PDT)) wrote:
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Daniel Ritz wrote:
> >>  
> >>  # Default for not multi-part modules
> >> -modname = $(basetarget)
> >> +modname = $(basename $(basetarget))
> >
> >Is there some way to make it clear _what_ the suffix we expect to remove 
> >actually is in GNU make? Ie the "shell" kind of "basename" logic.
> >
> >Ie, I'd personally be happier with a 
> >
> >	modname = $(basename $(basetarget) .mod)
> >
> >kind of thing (yeah, this obviously does _not_ work)
> 
> modname = $(patsubst %.mod,%,$(basetarget))
> 
> should do it (untested).
> 

yep, works fine.