Re: [PATCH v2] Kbuild: tiny correction on `make help`

[Cao jin]

On 06/14/2017 09:15 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 2017-06-13 18:52 GMT+09:00 Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Yamada-san,
>>
>>   I have a question on the current top level Makefile. There are
>> following lines, I have trouble to understand "firstword x$(MAKEFLAGS)"
>> in 2nd line, why there is a 'x' there?
>>
>>
>>   ifneq ($(filter 4.%,$(MAKE_VERSION)),)  # make-4
>>   ifneq ($(filter %s ,$(firstword x$(MAKEFLAGS))),)
> 
> 
> I do not understand the 'x' either.
> 
> Michal suggested the code according to the following:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3291301/
> (I hope Michal can help you.)
> 

It does helps.

> 
> My first guess was, it was added just in case $(MAKEFLAGS) is empty.
> Actually $(firstword ) seems to work with empty argument, though.
> 

I see, I guess you are saying it was added in case there is no
single-letter flags in $(MAKEFLAGS) while it has "--debug=jobs", that
make sense to me. Thanks very much, Yamada-san.

-- 
Sincerely,
Cao jin