[LinuxBIOS] Patch file for ld/fedora 8 issue as promised...
Marc Karasek
Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM
Thu Jan 10 17:06:08 CET 2008
So with the -gt change is this patch ok to go?
I will have some more time (maybe) next week to track down further the
id.lds problem.
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Marc Karasek
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Myles Watson wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 3:41 PM, Marc Karasek <Marc.Karasek at sun.com> wrote:
>
>> So what is the general consensus ==1 or >0?
>>
>
> I like the idea of using grep. It seems much cleaner, and avoids that issue.
>
> The other sticking point for the patch the changes in
> src/arch/i386/lib/id.lds (See Ed's last message.)
>
> Myles
>
>
>> Also, I think I know how to commit back to the tree, but do I need a
>> user account for this?
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Myles Watson wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 7, 2008 8:15 AM, Marc Karasek <Marc.Karasek at sun.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> After looking at the script Myles sent, I immediately saw the problem.
>>>> I forgot that if [ $build_id ] will always be true because it checks to
>>>> see if it is defined not the value of build_id. My bad, sorry.
>>>>
>>>> I have made the changes and added an == 1 to the if statement. Attached
>>>> is the new and I hope final patch file for this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It works for me (it doesn't add the load option.)
>>>
>>> Sorry to be picky, but it seems like this breaks if they mention
>>> build-id more than once in the help in the future. I think >0 would
>>> be better than ==1.
>>>
>>> With that fixed, or if no one thinks that will ever happen:
>>> Acked-by: Myles Watson <myles at pel.cs.byu.edu>
>>>
>>>
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>>>> Marc Karasek
>>>> MTS
>>>> Sun Microsystems
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ed Swierk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 1/4/08, Marc Karasek <Marc.Karasek at sun.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I made a test script and ran it and it sets build_id = 1 properly. I
>>>>>> have also included this script.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that on Planet Bourne, zero means true and nonzero means false.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Ed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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