Re: [uml-devel] Broken compiling under 2.6.12-rc2 on my machine

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 02:19 pm, Blaisorblade wrote:

> >   CHK     usr/initramfs_list
> >   QUOTE   arch/um/kernel/config.tmp
> >   QUOTE   arch/um/kernel/config.c
> >   CC      arch/um/kernel/config.o
> >
> > And I'm using knoppix, which is based on debian.
>
> But with updated packages (i.e. unstable/testing). If the patch is so
> little and without downsides, there's no point in not merging it.

Agreed.

> > From the error message, it seems to be complaining about the "a" command.
> > If you're using a really really really old version of sed, it might
> > insist on a gratuitous line break before the line to be added.  (I know
> > it did back in the 1970's, but I didn't think anything remotely modern
> > had that limitation.) So try splitting the command in half like this:
> >
> > cmd_quote2 = sed -e '/CONFIG/{'          \
> >                   -e 's/"CONFIG"\;/""/'        \
> >                   -e 'r $(obj)/config.tmp'     \
> >                   -e 'a \'                   \
> >                   -e '""\;'                  \
> >                   -e '}'                       \
> >                   $< > $@
> >
> > I just tried that here and it behaved the same way as the other version,
> > for me...
>
> Ok, Rob, finish handling this issue this and email me the patch (with a
> suitable changelog) when it's ready.

Just waiting to hear back from Ian that it does indeed fix the problem, and I 
see a reply from further down the list...

Rob


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