Garbage characters in the output of make -np in the Linux source tree

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
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         This has been reported by a debian user.

        I have confirmed that the problem exists with the latest Linux
 make and the kernel source, (2.4.17 at the time of writing). I
 thought perhaps the locale was to blame? I would suspect that Pásztor
 probably uses a non C, non English locale, and I am currently running
 under en_US.UTF-8, but I get the same (bad) results even in the C
 locale. So, tested bad: C, en_US.UTF-8, de_DE.  However, others,
 running under spanish and de.DE.ISO-8859-1 find that the output is
 sane. I am at a loss as to how to proceed to further define this
 issue -- perhaps the locale this is a red herring.

        manoj

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With a 2.4.5 or 2.4.13 kernel source, make -np produces garbage upon
substituting filenames when making modules and works properly when
making symlinks.

sample output from make -np symlinks:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
# Variables

# default
F77 = $(FC)
# makefile (from `.config', line 219)
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA = y
# makefile (from `Makefile', line 39)
DEPMOD = /sbin/depmod
# makefile (from `Makefile', line 17)
-----------------------------------------------------------------

sample output from make -np modules:
----------------------------------------------------------------
# Variables

# default
F77 = $(FC)
# makefile (from `<C0><FB>^H<82>
<D8>$^', line 219)
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA = y
# makefile (from `/usr/src/linux-2.4.13/Rules.make', line 25)
obj-m := 
# default
PREPROCESS.r = $(FC) $(FFLAGS) $(RFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH) -F
# environment
OBJCOPY = objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S
# makefile (from `<C0><FB>^H<82>
<D8>$^', line 216)
---------------------------------------------------------------

sample output from make -np (2.4.17)
----------------------------------------------------------------
# makefile (from `žîxÑ
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؊     hØ
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CONFIG_PARPORT_PC = y
----------------------------------------------------------------
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