[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS build problem

[Roger Pau Monné]

2012/2/20 Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell at citrix.com>:
> 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?

Yes, the shell I'm using is ash [0], this is the default shell for busybox.

[0] http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/

>
>> 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.

I can submit a patch replacing ":" with "#!/bin/sh", but I didn't do
it because I have no idea what ":" means in a shebang.

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