Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:25:28AM -0500, Dieter R Kedrowitsch wrote: > > Greetings! I am trying to compile ELKS from the archive > > elks-0.1.3.tar.gz and I am experiencing an error during make that I have > > never seen before. I am using bin86 0.16.17 on a pretty much stock > > installation of Ubuntu 9.10. > > > > This is just a small snippet of an error that is repeated many times > > when I run make to 'make dep'. > > > > printf: 1: $[0x000103-1]: expected numeric value > > printf: 1: $[0x000103-1]: expected numeric value > > printf: 1: $[0x000103-1]: expected numeric value > > This looks like your shell doesn't like some particular printf syntax. > Doesn't Ubuntu use dash as /bin/sh? Try setting it to bash I can confirm this on Debian with dash. The problem goes away as soon as /bin/sh is switched from dash to bash. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
