From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Organization: Boundaries Unlimited
To: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:32:32 -0600
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On Friday 02 January 2009 10:04:08 Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> Rob Landley a écrit :
> > On Friday 02 January 2009 03:26:37 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> >> On Friday 02 of January 2009, Rob Landley wrote:
> >>
> >> Heh,
> >
> > I believe all three scripts run under dash and busybox ash.  (The
> > timeconst.sh one needs 64 bit math which dash only provides on 64 bit
> > hosts, which is a regression from Red Hat 9 in 2003 by the way.
>
> With dash 0.5.4-12 (from debian sid), I seems I got the 64 bit math for
> 32 bit hosts :
> $ uname -m
> i686
> $ dash -c 'echo $((1<<32))'
> 4294967296
>
>
> Matthieu

Alas, my attempt to install a 32 bit version of xubuntu 8.10 under qemu hung 
at "Scanning files: 15%", and has been there for an hour now.  I'll have to 
take your word for it.  (All three scripts work fine under 64 bit dash.)

I encountered one bug in busybox, which I pinged that list about, but 
otherwise busybox ash works on 'em all too.

Rob
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