mips: Fix non-POSIX regexp
authorH. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 08:57:10 +0000 (10:57 +0200)
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Thu, 5 Aug 2021 11:52:03 +0000 (20:52 +0900)
commit28bbbb9875a35975904e46f9b06fa689d051b290
tree7d8387b5185bd9b9df5b87eb97fff62d3791f8eb
parentfa953adfad7cf9c7e30d9ea0e4ccfd38cfb5495d
mips: Fix non-POSIX regexp

When cross compiling a MIPS kernel on a BSD based HOSTCC leads
to errors like

  SYNC    include/config/auto.conf.cmd - due to: .config
egrep: empty (sub)expression
  UPD     include/config/kernel.release
  HOSTCC  scripts/dtc/dtc.o - due to target missing

It turns out that egrep uses this egrep pattern:

(|MINOR_|PATCHLEVEL_)

This is not valid syntax or gives undefined results according
to POSIX 9.5.3 ERE Grammar

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html

It seems to be silently accepted by the Linux egrep implementation
while a BSD host complains.

Such patterns can be replaced by a transformation like

"(|p1|p2)" -> "(p1|p2)?"

Fixes: 48c35b2d245f ("[MIPS] There is no __GNUC_MAJOR__")
Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
arch/mips/Makefile