Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1

[Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Could you please confirm that the above command is the one that trashes
> /dev/null, then I will try to cook up something better.

scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh with debug
=====================================================

ldflags()
{
echo "ldflags 1" >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
ls -l /dev/null >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
        echo "main() {}" | $cc -lncursesw -xc - -o /dev/null 2> /dev/null
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "ldflags 2" >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
ls -l /dev/null >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
                echo '-lncursesw'
                exit
        fi
echo "ldflags 3" >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
ls -l /dev/null >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
        echo "main() {}" | $cc -lncurses -xc - -o /dev/null 2> /dev/null
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "ldflags 4" >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
ls -l /dev/null >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
                echo '-lncurses'
                exit
        fi
echo "ldflags 5" >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
ls -l /dev/null >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
        echo "main() {}" | $cc -lcurses -xc - -o /dev/null 2> /dev/null
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "ldflags 6" >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
ls -l /dev/null >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
                echo '-lcurses'
                exit
        fi
echo "ldflags 7" >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
ls -l /dev/null >>/tmp/xxx 2>&1
        exit 1
}


content of /tmp/xxx
===================

ldflags 1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 Jan 18 22:20 /dev/null
ldflags 3
ls: /dev/null: No such file or directory
ldflags 4
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 11650 Jan 18 22:20 /dev/null

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
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