Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:59:18 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>,
       linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kbuild breaks um - fails to find util when linking
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:51:38PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:08:44AM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> > Another thing I noticed is this hunk :
> > 
> > +$(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=ld-linux.so.2) \
> > 
> > On 64bit that should not work since it is ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 and not ld-linux.so.2
> 
> That's a good point too.
> 
> This seems like an awful lot of fragile hair to go through in order to
> avoid using gcc to drive the link.

I agree on that. I have pulled the patch from kbuild-next.git,
and it will return only when I have found a simple way to handle um.
I think it is easy to do but I have not looked at it yet.

	Sam
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