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.
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
10 Fixes error when building linux kernel for some default arm configurations:
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
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
21 ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
22 $(MAKE) update-modverfile
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
28 ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS