From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:03:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] ia64: don't assume that unwcheck.py is executable Message-Id: <20071206000300.4138e247.akpm@linux-foundation.org> List-Id: References: <200712052232.lB5MWE3W028394@imap1.linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200712052232.lB5MWE3W028394@imap1.linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 07:45:57 +0000 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:17:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > - -$(Q)READELF=$(READELF) $(srctree)/arch/ia64/scripts/unwcheck.py $< > > > > + -$(Q)READELF=$(READELF) $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/arch/ia64/scripts/unwcheck.py $< > > > > > > unwcheck.py is not a shell script. > > > > > > > Oh well, whatever. Please treat this as a bug report. > > > > ie: someone please fix it. > > Best would be to get rid of python. Having another scripting language > as built requirement, and that only on ia64 doesn't sound like a > particularly good idea. It's probably not a big deal - especially as ia64 kernels are presuably not as likely to be built in wild and whacky enviroments like some other architectures. afacit the script is optional anyway - it "check and verifies unwind info". If python isn't available, just skip it..