Sam, please, tell to those guys, that shell must be `bash`, as Roman wanted.
Also, please, ask if they don't see my messages about simple `sed` and all
other stuff, or if just ignore me or like to express own ignorance.
Thanks.
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:53 AM, <sampo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:39:52PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >>
> >> Do we know why it picked up the busy box version?
>
> I think it has to do with my /bin/sh being the busybox ash. It seems
> the ash prefers its built-in version over the one in path. This is
> probably due to me having compiled busybox with some option. Sorry
> for the confusion.
>
> If I edit linux/Kbuild to reference explicitly /usr/bin/sed (which
> is the gnu sed), the compile proceeds ok up to a point where
> following happens
>
> (snip)
> make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=arch/x86/vdso
> gcc -Wp,-MD,arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/.int80.o.d -nostdinc -isystem
> /apps/gcc/3.4.6/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/include -D__KERNEL__
> -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -D__ASSEMBLY__ -m32
> -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1
> -Iinclude/asm-x86/mach-default -c -o arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/int80.o
> arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/int80.S
> arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/int80.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/int80.S:68: Fatal error: cannot write to output file
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/int80.o] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/x86/vdso] Error 2
>
> Here the problem appears to be that -c is supplied but there is no
> source file to compile. The error message certainly is not
> helpful. I'll investigate further.
>
> >> Because from the commandline it was the correct sed - and I do not
> >> know that make should do different.
>
> Busybox ash compiled with certain options is the culprit for
> this one.
>
> > Good point.
> >
> > No, and we might actually have two issues:
> > - what happened with the PATH (Sampo, is it really PATH or do you use an
> > alias?)
> > - we must somehow handle non-GNU sed's (either change the code or error)
>
> I would wish at least busybox sed be accommodated. Looking at the
> sed expression, it seems unnecessarily complicated. I'll try to formulate
> a simpler expression that accomplishes the same net result, namely
> transforming
>
> ->IA32_SIGCONTEXT_ax $44 offsetof(struct sigcontext, ax)
>
> to
>
> #define IA32_SIGCONTEXT_ax 44 /* offsetof(struct sigcontext, ax) # */
>
> It can't be as difficult as
>
> "/^->/{s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([^ ]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:;
> s:->::; p;}"
>
> Cheers,
> --Sampo
>
> >> Sam
> >
> > cu
> > Adrian
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