Bug#305731: zaptel command ztcfg freezes on PowerPC causing boot failure

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:47:33 +0300


On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:16:16PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 07:34:58AM +1200, Matthew Grant wrote:
> > ztcfg command freezes on zaptel module loads, halting boot process when
> > hotplug does its boot time stuff.
> 
> > Same old Makefile/compiler flags problem as before - you forgot to put the 
> > double quotes around the arguments to grep!!!
> 
> Yeesh, why would anyone want to use grep for this anyway?  -fsigned-char is
> a *no-op* on the other architectures; lose the stupid shell tricks, people.


Is that indeed the case?

Also note that the the qozap and zaphfc subdirectories need the same
fix.

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