[PATCH] powerpc/tools: Don't quote $objdump in scripts
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Oct 30 22:55:03 AEDT 2019
Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:47:30AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Some of our scripts are passed $objdump and then call it as
>> "$objdump". This doesn't work if it contains spaces because we're
>> using ccache, for example you get errors such as:
>>
>> ./arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh: line 48: ccache ppc64le-objdump: No such file or directory
>> ./arch/powerpc/tools/unrel_branch_check.sh: line 26: ccache ppc64le-objdump: No such file or directory
>>
>> Fix it by not quoting the string when we expand it, allowing the shell
>> to do the right thing for us.
>
> This breaks things for people with spaces in their paths.
Spaces in their what? Who does that? :)
Also we don't support it:
$ pwd
$ /home/michael/foo bar
$ make clean
Makefile:147: *** source directory cannot contain spaces or colons. Stop.
cheers
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