<html><body>Hi-- I have been tasked with building a set of cross compilation tools for our development team, and have stumbled into an interesting problem. We have Ubuntu Trusty and Red Hat 6.7 based development workstations. We are targeting an Ubuntu based host, on multiple hardware architectures. To get all developers ability to have local builds of their sources (kernel modules) run/ test on our targets I set up a Makefile to clone the Trusty kernel tree, and build the -generic image with cross tools. Everything works fine for the Ubuntu development machines. On the Red Hat development machines, I found the debian/rules build-generic target was failing with a shell error (unterminated `) in 2-binary-arch.mk, target $(stampdir)/stamp-prepare-tree-%. Turns out the raw_kernelversion variable was triggering a recursive make from 0-common-vars.mk, which printed the directory information. All the `'" were confusing the shell, causing the error. To fix the problem I added --no-print-directory into 0-common-vars.mk. So, my question is.... Is this a bug? enhancement? Is this even something Ubuntu team wishes to address given the unusual setup we have which triggered this? Thanks, --roger </body></html>