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Diffstat (limited to 'mkspecs/symbian/linux-armcc')
| -rw-r--r-- | mkspecs/symbian/linux-armcc/features/symbian_building.prf | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mkspecs/symbian/linux-armcc/features/symbian_building.prf b/mkspecs/symbian/linux-armcc/features/symbian_building.prf index 1510bfd..8f2d8a4 100644 --- a/mkspecs/symbian/linux-armcc/features/symbian_building.prf +++ b/mkspecs/symbian/linux-armcc/features/symbian_building.prf @@ -129,3 +129,13 @@ symbianresources.dependency_type = TYPE_C symbianresources.CONFIG = no_link QMAKE_EXTRA_COMPILERS += symbianresources + +# Pre 2.6.23 Linux kernels have a limit on the environment size that can be passed to +# a forked process. We quite easily overstep this boundary when building big projects +# on Symbian, and since we depend on running the system() command, this causes the build +# to fail. Test here that system() can be successfully run. It is important that this +# check happens as late as possible, otherwise it will not be caught. +execve_sanity_test = $$system("echo testing") +!contains(execve_sanity_test, "testing") { + error("Running system() failed. Maybe your kernel is too old? (Linux kernels need at least version 2.6.23)") +} |