Re: [PATCH] init/Kconfig: Specify the interpreter for rust-version.sh

[SeongJae Park]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 21:38:40 +0100 Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 1:34 PM SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Some common tools like 'diff' don't support permissions of the files.
> > Due to that, 'rust-version.sh' in some trees including '-mm' result in
> > having no execution permission, and therefore build fails like below:
> 
> Do you mean the Quilt workflow? From a quick look:
> 
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2008-01/msg00000.html
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749069
> 
> Is that the issue? I am surprised it loses that information...

Right.  I once encountered similar issue with DAMON kselftest[1], and as a
result we made kselftest deals with such case[2].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/mm-commits/YRJisBs9AunccCD4@xxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20210810164534.25902-1-sj38.park@xxxxxxxxx/

> 
> > It's not a big deal, but not so fun.  This commit fixes the issue by
> > specifying the interpreter for 'rust-version.sh' in the Kconfig file.
> 
> Other script calls do not do that, so I would prefer to avoid it. But
> I can take it temporarily to help you (until we are in mainline, if I
> understand correctly the issue), but I would prefer to have a comment
> nearby it justifying the workaround and explaining when we can remove
> it.

Fully agreed.  I will send v2 with the comment.


Thanks,
SJ

> 
> Cheers,
> Miguel
>