Re: cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 12:45:22 EST


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:07:43AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Tony Breeds wrote:
>
> > On most linux systems echo supports c-syle escapes with "-e". I'm
> > guessing which ever echo you're getting dosesn't do that.
>
> Yes, that is my problem.
>
> > I think the best fix is to ensure you're getting bash as your shell.
>
> The script starts off with this line:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> Doesn't that mean that it should be interpreted by sh and not bash?
>
> > A nasty hack would be to make check-lxdialog.sh do something like:
> > (echo ' #include CURSES_LOC';echo 'main() {}') | gcc '-DCURSES_LOC=<ncurses.h>' -DLOCALE -DKBUILD_NO_NLS -lncurses -xc - -o .lxdialog.tmp
>
> This works. Do you think if I posted a patch that makes this change, it will be
> accepted?

Yes.

Sam
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