Re: [PATCH] Re: 'make headers_check' failed to install headers to arbitrary location

From: Wolfgang Denk
Date: Thu Jun 04 2009 - 13:07:30 EST


Dear Sergei,

In message <20090604175536.2a1d0add@xxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
>
> Here is another version of the patch which fixes
> the "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check", used xargs
> to minimize the perl calls (thanks, Wolfgang).

Hm... but now we have a useless use of cat and a temp file.

> - cmd_check = $(PERL) $< $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH)/include $(SRCARCH) \
> - $(addprefix $(install)/, $(all-files)); \
> +# Headers list can be pretty long, xargs helps to avoid
> +# the "Argument list too long" error.
> + cmd_check = rm -f hdrlist; touch hdrlist; \
> + for f in $(all-files); do \
> + echo "$(install)/$${f} " >> hdrlist; done; \
> + cat hdrlist | xargs \
> + $(PERL) $< $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH)/include $(SRCARCH); \
> + rm -f hdrlist; \

Why not simply:

for f in $(all-files); do
echo "$(install)/$${f}"
done | xargs $(PERL) ...

?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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