Re: cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails

[Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>]

Tony Breeds wrote:

> On most linux systems echo supports c-syle escapes with "-e".  I'm
> guessing which ever echo you're getting dosesn't do that.

Yes, that is my problem.

> I think the best fix is to ensure you're getting bash as your shell.

The script starts off with this line:

#!/bin/sh

Doesn't that mean that it should be interpreted by sh and not bash?

> A nasty hack would be to make check-lxdialog.sh do something like:
> (echo ' #include CURSES_LOC';echo 'main() {}') | gcc '-DCURSES_LOC=<ncurses.h>' -DLOCALE -DKBUILD_NO_NLS -lncurses -xc - -o .lxdialog.tmp

This works.  Do you think if I posted a patch that makes this change, it will be
accepted?

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale