# HG changeset patch # User "Yann E. MORIN" # Date 1210489288 0 # Node ID 276501e872e543ba5dacefc092e62e2f710c59ac # Parent b4a30fecfb453a2314cbacc04847f9beb83d2ba4 Add a patch to the ageing glibc-2.3.6 to make it compile on stupid shells that have a defective implementation of echo. Thanks to Willy Tarreau for pointing to the patch. /trunk/patches/glibc/2.3.6/250-csu-Makefile.patch | 39 39 0 0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ /trunk/docs/CREDITS | 4 4 0 0 +++ 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+) diff -r b4a30fecfb45 -r 276501e872e5 docs/CREDITS --- a/docs/CREDITS Thu May 08 15:37:21 2008 +0000 +++ b/docs/CREDITS Sun May 11 07:01:28 2008 +0000 @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ Michael Abbott: - make it build with ancient findutils + Willy Tarreau: + - a patch to glibc to build on 'ancient' shells + - reported mis-use of $CT_CC_NATIVE + Many others have contributed, either in form of patches, suggestions, comments, or testing... Thank you to all of you! diff -r b4a30fecfb45 -r 276501e872e5 patches/glibc/2.3.6/250-csu-Makefile.patch --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/patches/glibc/2.3.6/250-csu-Makefile.patch Sun May 11 07:01:28 2008 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Use printf instead of echo for some shells. + +http://www.cygwin.com/ml/libc-alpha/2005-02/msg00123.html + +This patch does not generate invalid csu/version-info.h which has +unterminating " line because some /bin/sh cannot parse correctly. The +previous discussion was: + + http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-08/msg00129.html + http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-08/msg00145.html + +This patch gets rid of all this issue because the conclusion of the +discussion was to use printf instead of echo. Roland, could you look +at it again? + +Regards, +-- gotom + +2005-02-26 GOTO Masanori + + * csu/Makefile: Use printf instead of echo for some shells. + +Index: csu/Makefile +=================================================================== +RCS file: /cvs/glibc/libc/csu/Makefile,v +retrieving revision 1.75 +diff -u -p -r1.75 Makefile +--- glibc/csu/Makefile 3 Jan 2005 17:57:14 -0000 1.75 ++++ glibc.new/csu/Makefile 27 Feb 2005 01:17:49 -0000 +@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ $(objpfx)version-info.h: $(common-objpfx + esac; \ + files="$(all-Banner-files)"; \ + if test -n "$$files"; then \ +- echo "\"Available extensions:\\n\""; \ ++ printf '"Available extensions:\\n"\n'; \ + sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/^[[:space:]]*/ /' \ + -e 's/^\(.*\)$$/\"\1\\n\"/' $$files; \ + fi) > $@T +