Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:47:52 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [KCONFIG] Can't compile 2.6.12 without Gettext |
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:30:41PM +0900, Jerome Pinot wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Jerome,
> I didn't see much informations about this. > > It's not possible to "make {,menu}config" and even to compile a 2.6.12 > kernel if there is no or partially installed Gettext on the system. > > Full Gettext is *required* to launch the kbuild scripts since the > modifications to add i18n to the config scripts. > > Not all system have gettext, I'm thinking about small or embedded > system with specific toolchain. For example, uClibc is widely used but > as still a partial nls support. > > Anyway, this should not be required for compiling a kernel. At least > an option to pass to make which override the default behavior could > solve the issue. > > Moreover, the script doesn't do any sanity check about the system > (there is no configure script of course) and just try to catch the > gettext binaries he founds first. There is a hard-coded filename too. > > Seems dangerous to me and should not be allowed by default. > > Am I misleading ?
are you using an ftp.kernel.org 2.6.12 kernel or a vendor kernel?
If it's an ftp.kernel.org kernel, please send the exact error messages you are seeing.
> Jerome Pinot
cu Adrian
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