From d9ca4265ef58d58d1068b67cec445f7baec80528 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:41:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mk: remove xprintf

totally useless function. all it does is print
quotes. just printf the args into awk

this does literally the same thing. the output
will literally be the same.

unclear thinking == unclear code

right thinking == this patch

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
---
 mk | 18 ++----------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mk b/mk
index cfadf915..bddf319e 100755
--- a/mk
+++ b/mk
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ err()
 	elif [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
 		printf "ERROR %s: %s: in command with args: " "$0" "$1" 1>&2
 		shift 1
-		xprintf "$@" 1>&2
+		printf '%s\n' "$@" | awk '{printf "\"%s\" ", $0}'
+		printf "\n"
 	else
 		printf "ERROR, but no arguments provided to err\n" 1>&2
 	fi
@@ -58,21 +59,6 @@ err()
 	exit 1
 }
 
-xprintf()
-{
-	xprintfargs=0
-	while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
-		printf "\"%s\"" "$1"
-		[ $# -gt 1 ] && \
-			printf " "
-
-		xprintfargs=1
-		shift 1
-	done
-	[ $xprintfargs -gt 0 ] && \
-		printf "\n"; :
-}
-
 (
 xbarg0="$0"
 [ "${xbarg0##*/}" = "$xbarg0" ] && \