FAIL: alsa/Makefile dependency check

[li_jessen2016@gmail.com li]

Thanks for your kind reply. Then what should I do? To officially raise a
bug to all the relevant persons in the kernel community?

Jessen

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:33 PM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 10:47:16PM +0800, li_jessen2016 at gmail.com li
> wrote:
>
> > FAIL: alsa/Makefile dependency check: $(shell
> > FAIL: alsa/Makefile dependency check: pkg-config
>
> ..
>
> > So I wonder why the FAIL info appears in the presence of *$(shell
> > pkg-config --libs alsa) *in alsa/Makefile. Is it some sort of bug or
> > did I miss something?
>
> I think that's a bug in this tool you're running - it's not
> understanding the $(shell ...) and generating false positives, not 100%
> sure what it's trying to do but it's fairly clearly parsing every
> element in the statement as a dependency of some kind.
>