patches/linux/2.4.26/linux-2.4.26-mkdep-xargs.patch
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Tue May 01 16:49:15 2007 +0000 (2007-05-01)
changeset 56 07a6a48962b7
permissions -rw-r--r--
Merge patches sent by Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>.
Warning: the buildroot folks purposedly removed the skip-comment patch but didn't really said why. Keeping it for the sake of having it in svn just in case (removing it will be easier thant not having it at all).
     1 About ten times, various people have noticed that 'make dep' uses
     2 really, really long commandlines.  This breaks sh even on linux sometimes.
     3 
     4 For 2.4, see e.g.
     5 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=96589814004919&w=2
     6 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=96589814004919&q=p3
     7 http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/cygwin-to-linux-cross-howto.txt
     8 http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/archive/1728.html
     9 
    10 Fixes error when building linux kernel for some default arm configurations:
    11 
    12 scripts/mkdep -- `find /home/dank/wk/crosstool-0.28-rc36/build/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/linux-2.4.26/include/asm /home/dank/wk/crosstool-0.28-rc36/build/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/linux-2.4.26/include/linux /home/dank/wk/crosstool-0.28-rc36/build/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/linux-2.4.26/include/scsi /home/dank/wk/crosstool-0.28-rc36/build/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/linux-2.4.26/include/net /home/dank/wk/crosstool-0.28-rc36/build/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/linux-2.4.26/include/math-emu \( -name SCCS -o -name .svn \) -prune -o -follow -name \*.h ! -name modversions.h -print` > .hdepend
    13 /bin/sh: line 1: scripts/mkdep: Argument list too long
    14 make: *** [dep-files] Error 126
    15 
    16 [ For linux-2.4.26 ]
    17 
    18 --- linux-2.4.26/Makefile.old	2004-04-14 06:05:41.000000000 -0700
    19 +++ linux-2.4.26/Makefile	2004-09-13 21:27:39.000000000 -0700
    20 @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@
    21  ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
    22  	$(MAKE) update-modverfile
    23  endif
    24 -	scripts/mkdep -- `find $(FINDHPATH) \( -name SCCS -o -name .svn \) -prune -o -follow -name \*.h ! -name modversions.h -print` > .hdepend
    25 +	find $(FINDHPATH) \( -name SCCS -o -name .svn \) -prune -o -follow -name \*.h ! -name modversions.h -print | xargs scripts/mkdep | cat > .hdepend
    26  	scripts/mkdep -- init/*.c > .depend
    27  
    28  ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS