Re: [uml-devel] patch for 2.6.6-rc1

[BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>]

Alle 23:18, sabato 1 maggio 2004, roland ha scritto:
> Hi Paolo/Jeff,
>
> >Please post the arch/um/kernel/config.c file the build produced, which
> > gave the error. The change to the "QUOTE" line is to be analyzed.
>
> i think the change to  $$config =~ s/\\n/\\\n"\\n"/g probably was a mistake
> (i`m not good in regexes, though). it seems, that all the quotes and \n`s
> are being stripped from that file and so it`s no correct "c-source"
> anymore, imho.
>
> before:
> ---snipp---
> static __initdata char *config = "#\n"
> "# Automatically generated make config: don`t edit\n"
> "#\n"
> "CONFIG_USERMODE=y\n"
> ---snipp---
>
> after applying patch.266rc1-1 and running make again, it is:
> ---snipp---
> static __initdata char *config = "#
> # Automatically generated make config: don`t edit
> #
> CONFIG_USERMODE=y
> ---snipp---
>
> i changed the line in the Makefile back to:
> $$config =~ s/\n/\\n"\n"/g
> which made things better again.
>
> the error i reported is gone, but now "make linux ARCH=um" fails with:
>
> -> see make.log
This is related with the changes by Jeff Chua -  maybe you did not apply them 
well...
> which doesn`t seem to be related to that change of the regex before.
> since this error looks "skas related" for me, i gave it a further try and
> disabled skas support in .config - after that, the compile for that
> "TT only"-UML runs fine for a while, but unfortunately it also fails in
> the end:
>
> -> see make_tt.log

Tried disabling gdb proxy/profiling? That is probably the source of the 
problem.

> so still no 2.6.6-rc1 or 2.6.6-rc2 (tried both)

> err - i have a problem in understanding:
> why PERL code ?
> the statement is in arch/um/kernel/Makefile - is that being parsed by a
> perl interpreter during "make" - or does make just use similar language ?
> sorry if this sounds dumb - but i`m no developer and i never wrote a
> makefile myself.

Look in the lines nearby and you'll see that "perl" is invoked, and that line 
of code is passed to it as the program to execute.



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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
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