Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: build system cleanups for BSD | Date | 23 Mar 2000 16:45:30 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.1000323080621.12645A-100000@localhost>, Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >This is my first patch. It: > >1) fixes the detection of bash, which was flawed and broke in > the case where bash was not in /bin (ie /usr/local/bin/bash) >2) on systems that have gmake installed, you probably want > it to be the default MAKE (eg, the *BSD's) >3) if you don't have ncurses, at least fall back to curses before > giving up; in the BSD's at least, curses IS ncurses. > >Note: the kernel build depends on GNU awk, BSD awk doesn't work.
Are you *positive* about this?
Mastodon Linux uses the awk out of OpenBSD ((c) Lucent 1997) and is able to build the 2.3.xx kernels without complaint (at least for awk -- there are a couple of pointless gnuisms elsewhere in the build process that I've been waving patches around for.)
____ david parsons \bi/ There are places where the build process depends on \/ GNU stuff, but those seem to be from a simple ignorance of Unix, not missing features.
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