Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:57:33 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: sam.robb@timesys.com, zippel@linux-m68k.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: detect if -lintl is needed when linking
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Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:26:47PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
> >   This patch attempts to correct the problem by detecting whether or not
> > NLS support requires linking with libintl.
> >
> 
> Sigh. Can everyone please stop assuming gcc can output to /dev/null? On 
> several platforms, ld tries to lseek in the output file, and fails if it 
> can't.

Ah.

> Is there any reason this problem can't be solved the same way it is
> for libcurses in menuconfig, by using gcc -print-filename? Or perhaps
> using tempfile?

Sam has plans to address this problem I guess we should drop that patch.

Linus, please nuke 5e375bc7d586e0df971734a5a5f1f080ffd89b68
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