[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS build problem
Roger Pau Monné
roger.pau at entel.upc.edu
Mon Feb 20 16:58:53 CET 2012
2012/2/20 Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:48:48AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 09:22 +0000, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> It's an old-style way of indicating the file is a shell script. I
> wasn't aware this creeped in there - it should be converted to the
> more standard style.
>
> -Kevin
>
>
> commit 0fd9953a538b22e6087f9d4f25749e3622e40e87
> Author: Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
> Date: Mon Feb 20 09:33:23 2012 -0500
>
> Use "#!/bin/sh" instead of ":" in tools/gen-offsets.sh.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
Don't know if it's ok to Ack this, if not please ignore it and
consider this a Tested-by:
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at entel.upc.edu>
>
> diff --git a/tools/gen-offsets.sh b/tools/gen-offsets.sh
> index 99fdc53..73dede8 100755
> --- a/tools/gen-offsets.sh
> +++ b/tools/gen-offsets.sh
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -:
> +#!/bin/sh
> # Extract definitions from an assembler file. This is based on code
> # from the Linux Kernel.
> INFILE=$1
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