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    kconfig: fix /dev/null breakage · 3835f821
    Sam Ravnborg authored
    While running "make menuconfig" and "make mrproper"
    some people experienced that /dev/null suddenly changed
    permissions or suddenly became a regular file.
    The main reason was that /dev/null was used as output
    to gcc in the check-lxdialog.sh script and gcc did
    some strange things with the output file; in this
    case /dev/null when it errorred out.
    
    Following patch implements a suggestion
    from Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> to
    use gcc -print-file-name=libxxx.so.
    
    Also the Makefile is adjusted to not resolve value of
    HOST_EXTRACFLAGS and HOST_LOADLIBES until they are actually used.
    This prevents us from calling gcc when running make *clean/mrproper
    
    Thanks to Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au> and
    Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> for the first error reports.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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