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

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 09:55:51 EST


Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> Good grief, folks...
>
> Thanks Al.
> I've queued up the following patch.
>
> Sam
>
> commit c99cc32e0d92f5fdbdd39a7f42cfff869062fff5
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Apr 29 20:02:44 2008 +0200
>
> kconfig: made check-lxdialog more portable
>
> OS-X shell did not like 'echo -e' so implement
> suggestion from Al Viro to use a more portable construct.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Just for the record:

Acked-By: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This works on OS X. I haven't tested it on Linux, though.

FYI, there are other issues that break cross-compiling from OS X, but none of
them are related to /bin/sh. I'll post patches for those later this week.

--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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