Re: kbuild breaks um - fails to find util when linking

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Jun 18 2008 - 12:58:45 EST


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:51:38PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:08:44AM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> > Another thing I noticed is this hunk :
> >
> > +$(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=ld-linux.so.2) \
> >
> > On 64bit that should not work since it is ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 and not ld-linux.so.2
>
> That's a good point too.
>
> This seems like an awful lot of fragile hair to go through in order to
> avoid using gcc to drive the link.

I agree on that. I have pulled the patch from kbuild-next.git,
and it will return only when I have found a simple way to handle um.
I think it is easy to do but I have not looked at it yet.

Sam
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