Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a

Nicolas Pitre
2018-02-12T01:26:33Z

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> 2018-02-11 20:15 GMT+09:00 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>:
> > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:38:04 +0900
> > Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Is my 'less' insane?
> >> Or, is this intentional behavior of 'less'?
> >
> > Interesting, my less does not do that. Instead of the raw contents
> > of the file, yours is providing output of `ar tv`, which is
> > reconstructing more of the archive metadata. I guess it is keyed
> > on the filename extension.
>
> Ah, I see. 'ar tv' and 'less' gave me the same output.
>
>
> > Do you have an alias for it, or maybe the distro patches the tool?
>
> I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
>
> Not alias'ed
>
> $ type less
> less is hashed (/usr/bin/less)
> $ /usr/bin/less kernel/built-in.a | head -n 10
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 60216 Jan 1 09:00 1970 kernel/fork.o
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 3648 Jan 1 09:00 1970 kernel/exec_domain.o
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 20552 Jan 1 09:00 1970 kernel/panic.o
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 87752 Jan 1 09:00 1970 kernel/cpu.o
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 34136 Jan 1 09:00 1970 kernel/exit.o
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 41448 Jan 1 09:00 1970 kernel/softirq.o
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 40904 Jan 1 09:00 1970 kernel/resource.o
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 60968 Jan 1 09:00 1970 kernel/sysctl.o
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 4472 Jan 1 09:00 1970 kernel/sysctl_binary.o
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 12472 Jan 1 09:00 1970 kernel/capability.o
>
> Could be patched by the disto.

What do you get from:

$ echo $LESSOPEN

?

Nicolas