Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
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