[uClibc] Script embezzlement

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Fri Sep 19 18:34:29 UTC 2003


On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:30:27PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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> On Thursday 18 September 2003 09:42, Michael D. Miller wrote:
> > It appears there is embezzlement going on in the makefiles.  The problem
> > was noticed on version 0.9.21 but probably has been there for some time.
> > Specifically libc/sysdeps/linux/common and libc/sysdeps/linux/sh Makefiles
> > have a substitution line SAFECFLAGS := $subst -g,,$(SAFECFLAGS)) with a
> > comment about the addition of the -g flag killing initfini stuff on the SH4
> > processor.  The line seeks to remove any -g option.  Unfortunately it
> > steals from other things like include file paths of the type "my-linux-gnu"
> > and turns them into "my-linuxnu", which does nothing to help me find
> > stddef.h under my headers.  The symptom is a failed build on gmon-start
> > with many errors about not knowing the size of many typedefs.  May I
> > suggest the two makefiles be changed to something like:
> >
> >     SAFECFLAGS := $(filter-out -g,$(SAFECFLAGS))
> 
> i mentioned this some time ago and had a patch iirc but noone seemed to care/
> pick it up :x

Just haven't gotten to it yet.  Thanks for the reminder though.

Manuel



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