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    kbuild: do not quote string values in include/config/auto.conf · 129ab0d2
    Masahiro Yamada authored
    The previous commit fixed up all shell scripts to not include
    include/config/auto.conf.
    
    Now that include/config/auto.conf is only included by Makefiles,
    we can change it into a more Make-friendly form.
    
    Previously, Kconfig output string values enclosed with double-quotes
    (both in the .config and include/config/auto.conf):
    
        CONFIG_X="foo bar"
    
    Unlike shell, Make handles double-quotes (and single-quotes as well)
    verbatim. We must rip them off when used.
    
    There are some patterns:
    
      [1] $(patsubst "%",%,$(CONFIG_X))
      [2] $(CONFIG_X:"%"=%)
      [3] $(subst ",,$(CONFIG_X))
      [4] $(shell echo $(CONFIG_X))
    
    These are not only ugly, but also fragile.
    
    [1] and [2] do not work if the value contains spaces, like
       CONFIG_X=" foo bar "
    
    [3] does not work correctly if the value contains double-quotes like
       CONFIG_X="foo\"bar"
    
    [4] seems to work better, but has a cost of forking a process.
    
    Anyway, quoted strings were always PITA for our Makefiles.
    
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