From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wrong final bzImage build (regading #14270)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:05:15 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACF977B.7060104@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ACF9184.9040104@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Ok, some more to this.
>
> It turns out dash's built-in echo command interprets \nnn octal
> sequences by default, and there's no way to turn that off. So,
> for example, sed-zoffset command from arch/x86/boot/Makefile
> (which includes \1 \2 etc substitutions for sed), when echoed
> in verbose mode (V=1), produces.. interesting characters (with
> ascii code 1 and 2).
>
> It's not practival to replace V=1's echo with /bin/echo I think.
>
> So I'd say it's not a bug in the build system after all, but
> a bug in dash. Well, at least this expanding-by-default didn't
> trigger another very-difficult-to-find bug (hopefully), but it
> has good potential.
>
> I'll file a bug report against dash.
For reference: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550399
> /mjt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-09 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 14:17 Michael Tokarev
2009-10-09 14:26 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-10-09 14:58 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-10-09 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-09 17:14 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-10-09 19:39 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-10-09 19:59 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-10-09 20:02 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2009-10-09 20:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-09 21:27 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-10-09 21:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-09 20:05 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
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