Re: CONFIG_KPROBES=y build requires gawk

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Thu Dec 17 2009 - 00:47:53 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/16/2009 09:11 PM, Roland Dreier wrote:
>>
>> > As Al Viro said, if we run awk with LC_ALL=C, then the characters will be
>> > sorted as ASCII. So, your patch is OK if you can add LC_ALL=C just before
>> > $(AWK). (I'm not so sure whether Makefile can accept it...)
>>
>
> I would strongly prefer the following solution as it solves this entire
> class of problems globally, although I'd really want Michal's ACK for it:

Sure, agreed.
BTW, is it possible user to overwrite this setting?

Thank you,

>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 33d4732..7fefc13 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -302,6 +302,10 @@ MAKEFLAGS += --include-dir=$(srctree)
> $(srctree)/scripts/Kbuild.include: ;
> include $(srctree)/scripts/Kbuild.include
>
> +# Avoid funny character set dependencies
> +LC_ALL=C
> +export LC_ALL
> +
> # Make variables (CC, etc...)
>
> AS = $(CROSS_COMPILE)as
>
>

--
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx

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