From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750794AbVH0MsD (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:48:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751608AbVH0MsD (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:48:03 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:11783 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750794AbVH0MsB (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:48:01 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:47:52 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jerome Pinot Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [KCONFIG] Can't compile 2.6.12 without Gettext Message-ID: <20050827124751.GK6471@stusta.de> References: <88ee31b705082421303697aef7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <88ee31b705082421303697aef7@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:30:41PM +0900, Jerome Pinot wrote: > Hi, Hi Jerome, > I didn't see much informations about this. > > It's not possible to "make {,menu}config" and even to compile a 2.6.12 > kernel if there is no or partially installed Gettext on the system. > > Full Gettext is *required* to launch the kbuild scripts since the > modifications to add i18n to the config scripts. > > Not all system have gettext, I'm thinking about small or embedded > system with specific toolchain. For example, uClibc is widely used but > as still a partial nls support. > > Anyway, this should not be required for compiling a kernel. At least > an option to pass to make which override the default behavior could > solve the issue. > > Moreover, the script doesn't do any sanity check about the system > (there is no configure script of course) and just try to catch the > gettext binaries he founds first. There is a hard-coded filename too. > > Seems dangerous to me and should not be allowed by default. > > Am I misleading ? are you using an ftp.kernel.org 2.6.12 kernel or a vendor kernel? If it's an ftp.kernel.org kernel, please send the exact error messages you are seeing. > Jerome Pinot cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed