Subject: [PATCH 1/3] kconfig: fix /dev/null breakage
While running "make menuconfig" and "make mrproper"
some people experienced that /dev/null suddenly changed
permissions or suddenly became a regular file.
The main reason was that /dev/null was used as output
to gcc in the check-lxdialog.sh script and gcc did
some strange things with the output file; in this
case /dev/null when it errorred out.
Following patch implements a suggestion
from Bryan O'Sullivan <[email protected]> to
use gcc -print-file-name=libxxx.so.
Also the Makefile is adjusted to not resolve value of
HOST_EXTRACFLAGS and HOST_LOADLIBES until they are actually used.
This prevents us from calling gcc when running make *clean/mrproper
Thanks to Eyal Lebedinsky <[email protected]> and
Jean Delvare <[email protected]> for the first error reports.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
---
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/Makefile | 7 +++++--
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh | 14 +++++++++-----
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
ec29b10f689f292accf9af0bc1c00e7815f6be7b
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/Makefile
index fae3e29..bbf4887 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
#
check-lxdialog := $(srctree)/$(src)/check-lxdialog.sh
-HOST_EXTRACFLAGS:= $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ccflags)
-HOST_LOADLIBES := $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC))
+
+# Use reursively expanded variables so we do not call gcc unless
+# we really need to do so. (Do not call gcc as part of make mrproper)
+HOST_EXTRACFLAGS = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ccflags)
+HOST_LOADLIBES = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC))
HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -DLOCALE
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
index 448e353..120d624 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
@@ -4,17 +4,17 @@
# What library to link
ldflags()
{
- echo "main() {}" | $cc -lncursesw -xc - -o /dev/null 2> /dev/null
+ $cc -print-file-name=libncursesw.so | grep -q /
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo '-lncursesw'
exit
fi
- echo "main() {}" | $cc -lncurses -xc - -o /dev/null 2> /dev/null
+ $cc -print-file-name=libncurses.so | grep -q /
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo '-lncurses'
exit
fi
- echo "main() {}" | $cc -lcurses -xc - -o /dev/null 2> /dev/null
+ $cc -print-file-name=libcurses.so | grep -q /
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo '-lcurses'
exit
@@ -36,10 +36,13 @@ ccflags()
fi
}
-compiler=""
+# Temp file, try to clean up after us
+tmp=.lxdialog.tmp
+trap "rm -f $tmp" 0 1 2 3 15
+
# Check if we can link to ncurses
check() {
- echo "main() {}" | $cc -xc - -o /dev/null 2> /dev/null
+ echo "main() {}" | $cc -xc - -o $tmp 2> /dev/null
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
echo " *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries." 1>&2
echo " *** make menuconfig require the ncurses libraries" 1>&2
@@ -59,6 +62,7 @@ if [ $# == 0 ]; then
exit 1
fi
+cc=""
case "$1" in
"-check")
shift
--
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