On 6/27/11 9:26 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday, June 27, 2011 11:23:58 Lars Wendler wrote: >> Am Montag 27 Juni 2011, 17:01:01 schrieb Fabian Groffen: >>> On 27-06-2011 14:08:52 +0000, Justin Lecher wrote: >>>> Please do not use / as seperater when using sed with CFLAGS. I came >>>> across a bug today where it failed for crossdev. Here the toolchain >>>> header paths in the cflags and consowuently the seds fail. >>> >>> Please also don't use ':' as separator, as some platforms have options >>> for their toolchain that includes colons. >> >> Rather than telling us what to _not_ use as separator how about suggesting >> a list of konwn to be good separators for such cases. How about the @ >> character? > > "|" tends to be safe for *FLAGS > > this topic has come up before, so it's probably useful to read the history in > the archives rather than rehash the whole thing from scratch every year or > so. > i thought we also had a section in the devmanual covering this ... > -mike
I am not cross compiling so I never hit this issue nor was interested in. And not even thought about it, so the addressed audience are people like me. Due to this bug I did a grep on the tree and there are really many package doing it wrong. So any section in the manuals or past discussions here didn't change a thing as it seems. justin
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