[PATCH] make it possible to keep Config/Kbuild snippets in *.c files

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 15 May 2010 12:59:38 Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> But, even if it did work (did you test?  what shell?),

Me, on bash.  And the point of the quotes around the "$()" is to preserve 
whitespace in the output.  (Alas, it doesn't preserve embedded NUL bytes, and 
yes I did test that.)

> forking a subshell
> just to get an LF character stashed into a variable, is way too expensive.

You're about to launch gcc, and forking a subshell is too expensive?

I think you've officially passed into la-la land with that remark.

Rob
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