Re: Patch that allows >=2.6.12 kernel to build on nls free systems

[Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Yuri Vasilevski wrote:

> I have also made a bug report at kernel's bugzilla:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5501
> And there is a discussion about this problem in Gentoo's bugzilla:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99810
> 
> diff -Naur linux-2.6.14_rc2.orig/scripts/kconfig/Makefile linux-2.6.14_rc2/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> --- linux-2.6.14_rc2.orig/scripts/kconfig/Makefile	2005-11-06 04:13:01 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6.14_rc2/scripts/kconfig/Makefile	2005-11-18 03:52:03 +0000
> @@ -116,6 +116,15 @@
>  clean-files	:= lkc_defs.h qconf.moc .tmp_qtcheck \
>  		   .tmp_gtkcheck zconf.tab.c zconf.tab.h lex.zconf.c
>  
> +# Needed for systems without gettext
> +KBUILD_HAVE_NLS := $(shell \
> +     if echo "\#include <libint.h>" | $(HOSTCC) $(HOSTCFLAGS) -E - > /dev/null 2>&1 ; \
> +     then echo yes ; \
> +     else echo no ; fi)
> +ifeq ($(KBUILD_HAVE_NLS),no)
> +HOSTCFLAGS	+= -DKBUILD_NO_NLS
> +endif
> +
>  # generated files seem to need this to find local include files
>  HOSTCFLAGS_lex.zconf.o	:= -I$(src)
>  HOSTCFLAGS_zconf.tab.o	:= -I$(src)

Sam, I was wondering about this kind runtime configuration stuff, if we 
could cache the information and don't run the tests every time. 

bye, Roman
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