Re: S/390 Linux doesn't link on trunk

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:02:25PM +0200, Dr. Jochen Röhrig wrote:
> > The problem arises from the unconditional definition of
> > CHILD_PID_TO_EXEC_FILE at the end of config/nm-linux.h. According to the
> > CVS-log this was added in Revision 1.11 of config/nm-linux.h on January, 8th.
> > There were also changes made in config/<arch>/linux.mh for some architectures
> > (linking with linux-proc.o), which, as far as I can judge it, avoid the above
> > described problem on theses architectures. However s390 (and, as it seems,
> > some other architectures), doesn't have a config/<arch>/linux.mh so no
> > modifications were made for s390.
> >
> > My question now: are we missing something for s390 because we don't have the
> > config/s390/linux.mh-file or are the changes to config/s390/nm-linux.h that I
> > described above a correct solution for the problem? Or would it instead be a
> > better solution to add a "NATDEPFILES += linux-proc.o" to config/s390/s390.mh?
> 
> Aha!  That's a good solution.  A better one is to kill
> config/s390/s390.mh, create config/s390/linux.mh, and use that instead.
> That's much more accurate and will help prevent this sort of error
> recurring.
> 
> Michael, sound right to you?  I can't think of any reason not to use
> linux-proc.o on S/390.

So long as /proc works as advertised on s390/Linux, 
sure, go for it.