[OpenWrt-Devel] gen_initramfs_list.sh escaping problem or stale dependency file?

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 16:00:56 EDT 2016


On 09/13/2016 12:24 AM, Michal Marek wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 05:12:15PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a root filesystem embedding filenames that look like these:
>>
>> /lib/data/<vid>:<pid>
>>
>> these are essentially files that can be matched against an USB
>> vendor/product id in an easy way.
>>
>> Now, the fun part is that this is only a problem when doing the
>> following (using OpenWrt/LEDE as a build system):
>>
>> 1:
>> - set CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
>> - build kernel modules
>> - build my user-space tools
>> - build the kernel image
>> - reconfigure the kernel to now use an initramfs
>> - build the kernel w/ initramfs
>>
>> and then back to step 1 with the kernel build, would I hit this error:
>>
>> usr/Makefile:64: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop.
> [...]
>> Which sorts of make sense here because the file name contains a ":"
>> which is not escaped, so GNU Make tries to interpret it.
>>
>> Now the part that does not quite make sense to me is why this file is
>> even relevant here considering that the first thing we do is set
>> CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="" to disable the initramfs basically.
> 
> It is possible that we read usr/Makefile twice for some reason. But the
> real problem is the lack of escaping. Can you try the following
> (untested) patch?

Can you submit an official patch for this? Thanks a lot!

> 
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh b/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
> index 17fa901418ae..5d3188e74101 100755
> --- a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
> +++ b/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
> @@ -97,7 +97,10 @@ print_mtime() {
>  }
>  
>  list_parse() {
> -	[ ! -L "$1" ] && echo "$1 \\" || :
> +	if [ -L "$1" ]; then
> +		return
> +	fi
> +	echo "$1" | sed 's/\([:%]\)/\\\1/g; s/$/ \\/'
>  }
>  
>  # for each file print a line in following format
> 
> Thanks,
> Michal
> 


-- 
Florian
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