Re: invalid character 45 in exportstr for include-config

[Kai Germaschewski]

On 2 Nov 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 19:18, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Anyone else seeing this error message?  I figured out what it _actually_
> > means is that the character `-' is not permitted in the symbol being
> > exported.  so if we change include-config to include_config in Makefile
> > and scripts/Makefile.build, everything is fine.
> > 
> > How about the following patch?
> 
> Nice work Matthew, although you missed cleaning up a few remaining
> 'include-config' references in comments.
> 
> Kai, this fixes the problem I reported to you on sparc64 with
> make-3.79   What version of make do you have which accepted this
> variable name with a dash in it?

Thank you guys, I'll push it to Linus if it's not merged already. As 
other people pointed out, it seems to be that various version of bash/sh 
seem to handle the '-' differently.

Makes me wonder if Pete's exporting of 'INIT-Y' is a good idea, you may 
want to change that to '_' as well.

--Kai