[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS build problem

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 09:22 +0000, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When compiling SeaBIOS with busybox and uclibc 0.9.33, I've hit the
> following error:
> 
>   Build Kconfig config file
>   Compiling whole program out/ccode.16.s
>   Compiling to assembler out/asm-offsets.s
>   Generating offset file out/asm-offsets.h
> gen-offsets.sh: applet not found

I guess this means your shell comes from busybox? 

> When looking into gen-offsets.sh [0] I've realized there's a strange
> shebang in the script ":", is this normal? Replacing ":" with
> "#!/bin/sh" solves the problem, but I don't understand why the ":"
> shebang works for some (on Debian stable it works ok) and what it
> means.

I've no idea either -- I've copied the seabios ML.

Ian.

> 
> Thanks, Roger.
> 
> [0] http://code.coreboot.org/p/seabios/source/tree/rel-1.6.3.1/tools/gen-offsets.sh