Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:19:47 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Linux Makefile uses 'ls', causes problems with color-ls (PATCH) |
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 01:53:20PM +0300, Catalin Muresan wrote: > > > - ls *.o > $$MODLIB/.allmods; \ > > + echo *.o | tr ' ' '\n' > $$MODLIB/.allmods; \ > > How about find? When crosscompiling on various Unices the shell expansion > and passed environment variables may at times exceed the limits of various > Unices, Solaris and IRIX and a few others come to mind. We rely on find > anyway and find won't run into that problem.
You can run into line-buffer limits with many such expressions. It would be nice for someone, who is a shell-script guru, to modify the Makefile so that 'modules_install' is done just like the other stuff so there is always a ../linux/modules directory with a Makefile in it that (only) handles installing modules in an efficient way with few, if any side-effects, using as much of the built-ins as possible.
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.2.5 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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