Re: [GIT PULL] x86/build change for v3.6

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> > 
> > No, the reason for the odd looking diff is that lots of lines in 
> > arch/x86/Makefile have 8-space tabs for histerical reasons but 
> > new code (such as this one) has proper tabs.
> 
> Use of tabs for indent in a Makefile is just asking for 
> trouble.

Ok, I guess you are right - see the patch below which was 
another type of bug that could be introduced via not using 
spaces properly.

We could do it the other way around: turn all tabs into spaces 
and add Makefile checking in kbuild so that the build fails if
a tab is added to a Makefile?

Alternatively, is there perhaps some way to teach make to not be 
so broken to depend on whitespace details that are *invisible* 
to humans?

Thanks,

	Ingo

Index: linux/arch/x86/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ linux/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_X86_X32
 		KBUILD_AFLAGS += -DCONFIG_X86_X32_ABI
 		KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_X86_X32_ABI
 	else
-		$(warning CONFIG_X86_X32 enabled but no binutils support)
+ 		$(warning CONFIG_X86_X32 enabled but no binutils support)
 	endif
 endif
 export CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI