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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: oom-killer problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:15:46 MST."
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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).