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(+)
1.1 --- a/docs/CREDITS Thu May 08 15:37:21 2008 +0000
1.2 +++ b/docs/CREDITS Sun May 11 07:01:28 2008 +0000
1.3 @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
1.4 Michael Abbott:
1.5 - make it build with ancient findutils
1.6
1.7 + Willy Tarreau:
1.8 + - a patch to glibc to build on 'ancient' shells
1.9 + - reported mis-use of $CT_CC_NATIVE
1.10 +
1.11 Many others have contributed, either in form of patches, suggestions,
1.12 comments, or testing... Thank you to all of you!
1.13
2.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
2.2 +++ b/patches/glibc/2.3.6/250-csu-Makefile.patch Sun May 11 07:01:28 2008 +0000
2.3 @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
2.4 +Use printf instead of echo for some shells.
2.5 +
2.6 +http://www.cygwin.com/ml/libc-alpha/2005-02/msg00123.html
2.7 +
2.8 +This patch does not generate invalid csu/version-info.h which has
2.9 +unterminating " line because some /bin/sh cannot parse correctly. The
2.10 +previous discussion was:
2.11 +
2.12 + http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-08/msg00129.html
2.13 + http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-08/msg00145.html
2.14 +
2.15 +This patch gets rid of all this issue because the conclusion of the
2.16 +discussion was to use printf instead of echo. Roland, could you look
2.17 +at it again?
2.18 +
2.19 +Regards,
2.20 +-- gotom
2.21 +
2.22 +2005-02-26 GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
2.23 +
2.24 + * csu/Makefile: Use printf instead of echo for some shells.
2.25 +
2.26 +Index: csu/Makefile
2.27 +===================================================================
2.28 +RCS file: /cvs/glibc/libc/csu/Makefile,v
2.29 +retrieving revision 1.75
2.30 +diff -u -p -r1.75 Makefile
2.31 +--- glibc/csu/Makefile 3 Jan 2005 17:57:14 -0000 1.75
2.32 ++++ glibc.new/csu/Makefile 27 Feb 2005 01:17:49 -0000
2.33 +@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ $(objpfx)version-info.h: $(common-objpfx
2.34 + esac; \
2.35 + files="$(all-Banner-files)"; \
2.36 + if test -n "$$files"; then \
2.37 +- echo "\"Available extensions:\\n\""; \
2.38 ++ printf '"Available extensions:\\n"\n'; \
2.39 + sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/^[[:space:]]*/ /' \
2.40 + -e 's/^\(.*\)$$/\"\1\\n\"/' $$files; \
2.41 + fi) > $@T
2.42 +