Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

Rob Landley
2009-01-04T01:32:46Z

On Friday 02 January 2009 10:04:08 Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> Rob Landley a écrit :
> > On Friday 02 January 2009 03:26:37 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> >> On Friday 02 of January 2009, Rob Landley wrote:
> >>
> >> Heh,
> >
> > I believe all three scripts run under dash and busybox ash. (The
> > timeconst.sh one needs 64 bit math which dash only provides on 64 bit
> > hosts, which is a regression from Red Hat 9 in 2003 by the way.
>
> With dash 0.5.4-12 (from debian sid), I seems I got the 64 bit math for
> 32 bit hosts :
> $ uname -m
> i686
> $ dash -c 'echo $((1<<32))'
> 4294967296
>
>
> Matthieu

Alas, my attempt to install a 32 bit version of xubuntu 8.10 under qemu hung
at "Scanning files: 15%", and has been there for an hour now. I'll have to
take your word for it. (All three scripts work fine under 64 bit dash.)

I encountered one bug in busybox, which I pinged that list about, but
otherwise busybox ash works on 'em all too.

Rob