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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

Well, that fixed something else, but not the actual problem you're 
having.  Andrew and I spent our afternoon debugging it until we found 
(Andrew found) the fabled IFS finagling in linux's PREPARE had been the 
culprit.  As I understand it, a workaround has been added to sorcery to 
make list_add a bit more robust to avoid the issue.

Anybody willing to modify the spell to eliminate the use of IFS, feel 
free to submit a patch.

And let this be a lesson to us all... IFS finagling or the lack of 
quotes, or even worse, the creation of a function that depends a the 
certain status of IFS... all these are Bad Interactions that we should 
avoid in bash where alternatives are available.  (Not only do you have 
to protect your IFS finagling from bothering code after you've messed 
with it, but you have to protect subroutines run while you've finagled 
IFS.)

Over and out.

Seth

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:11:44PM -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> try this diff on PREPARE:
> 
> 157d156
> <   arch_default
> 198a198,199
> > arch_default
> >
> 
> Let me know if that fixes it.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:36:40PM +0200, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> > using test sorcery, the linux spell fails to cast
> > I get the same problem on two differnet machines,one of which is a clean 
> > install.  The problem seems to be the ARCH variable, which I had 
> > originally 
> > set to i386
> > 
> > # cat /etc/sorcery/local/depends/linux.p
> > CONFIG_KERNEL=""
> > KERNEL_ARCH=""
> > OLD_CONFIG="y"
> > USE_GUI="n"
> > REUSE_SOURCE="n"
> > -------------
> > 
> > Building linux
> > Building a new tree.
> > gpg checking linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2 with linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2.sign.
> > using public key ring file kernel.gpg.
> > check passed.
> > extracting linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2
> > patching file scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> > Using gcc version: 3.4.2
> > Installing in dir: /usr/src/linux-2.6.9
> > linux    2.6.9
> > /usr/src/linux-2.6.9
> > ARCH is '', CROSS_COMPILE is ''
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9'
> >   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
> >   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/split-include
> >   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
> >   SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h
> >   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
> >   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
> >   SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
> >   SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c
> >   HOSTCC  -fPIC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
> >   HOSTLLD -shared scripts/kconfig/libkconfig.so
> >   HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
> > scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch//Kconfig
> > can't find file arch//Kconfig
> > make[2]: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9'
> > *** [oldconfig] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [oldconfig] Error 2
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9'
> > Makefile:500: /usr/src/linux-2.6.9/arch//Makefile: No such file or 
> > directory
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
> > `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9/arch//Makefile'.  
> > Stop.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9'
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9'
> > Makefile:500: /usr/src/linux-2.6.9/arch//Makefile: No such file or 
> > directory
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
> > `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9/arch//Makefile'.  
> > Stop.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9'
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,  Treeve 
> > 
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