From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: sam.robb@timesys.com, zippel@linux-m68k.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: detect if -lintl is needed when linking conf,mconf
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:57:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060208215733.0064e226.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060209054231.GB1615@quicksilver.road.mcmartin.ca>
Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:26:47PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
> > This patch attempts to correct the problem by detecting whether or not
> > NLS support requires linking with libintl.
> >
>
> Sigh. Can everyone please stop assuming gcc can output to /dev/null? On
> several platforms, ld tries to lseek in the output file, and fails if it
> can't.
Ah.
> Is there any reason this problem can't be solved the same way it is
> for libcurses in menuconfig, by using gcc -print-filename? Or perhaps
> using tempfile?
Sam has plans to address this problem I guess we should drop that patch.
Linus, please nuke 5e375bc7d586e0df971734a5a5f1f080ffd89b68
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-09 5:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-30 18:26 Robb, Sam
2006-02-09 5:42 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-02-09 5:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-02-09 17:24 Robb, Sam
2006-02-14 16:13 ` Christopher Faylor
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