linux-kernel - Re: cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails

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Message-ID: <48187A2E.8030502@freescale.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:54:54 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Tony Breeds <tony@...eyournoodle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> Good grief, folks...
> 
> Thanks Al.
> I've queued up the following patch.
> 
> 	Sam
> 
> commit c99cc32e0d92f5fdbdd39a7f42cfff869062fff5
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nus.ravnborg.org>
> Date:   Tue Apr 29 20:02:44 2008 +0200
> 
>     kconfig: made check-lxdialog more portable
>     
>     OS-X shell did not like 'echo -e' so implement
>     suggestion from Al Viro to use a more portable construct.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
>     Cc: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>

Just for the record:

Acked-By: Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>

This works on OS X.  I haven't tested it on Linux, though.

FYI, there are other issues that break cross-compiling from OS X, but none of
them are related to /bin/sh.  I'll post patches for those later this week.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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