From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: jbaron@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weird code in scripts/kconfig/Makefile
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:37:56 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612131235530.1867@scrub.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061212180924.c998f9a8.zaitcev@redhat.com>
Hi,
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> In 2.6.19 (and Linus' curent tree), I found the following:
>
> libpath=$$dir/lib; lib=qt; osdir=""; \
> $(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
> osdir=x$$($(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory); \
> test -d $$libpath/$$osdir && libpath=$$libpath/$$osdir; \
>
> What does the little 'x' do in front of $$(foo)? It looks suspiciously
> like a typo to me.
Indeed, it looks like it. It's the fallback path nowadays, so I guess it
wasn't noticed so far.
bye, Roman
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-13 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-13 2:09 Pete Zaitcev
2006-12-13 2:28 ` Jason Baron
2006-12-13 11:37 ` Roman Zippel [this message]
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