Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:13:04 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 |
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Hi Sam,
> The shell script check-dialog.sh is called which again do: > echo "main() {}" | gcc -xc - -o /dev/null > > And it seems that gcc will trash /dev/null in your setup when doing > this. > One fix would be to avoid the two lines during distclean, > but I may have to resort to a temporary file. > > Could you please confirm that the above command is the one that trashes > /dev/null, then I will try to cook up something better.
I confirm that this one line is causing the trouble:
root@arrakis:~> ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-01-18 13:34 /dev/null root@arrakis:~> echo "main() {}" | gcc -xc - -o /dev/null root@arrakis:~> ls -l /dev/null crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1, 3 2006-01-18 13:34 /dev/null root@arrakis:~>
This is with both gcc 3.3.6 from Slackware 10.2 and gcc 4.0.2 from Suse 10.0. Didn't try with self-compiled gcc versions on these systems.
BTW, I have noticed recently an "a.out" file at the root of my linux sources tree when I build a kernel.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 khali users 11K 2006-01-16 19:51 a.out*
Running it doesn't seem to do anything useful. Is this file generated here on purpose? Is it somehow related to the current issue?
Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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