From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KN5YN-0007Z6-QI for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:40:47 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KN5YL-0007X0-KT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:40:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KN5YK-0007WI-FG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:40:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49143 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KN5YK-0007WA-9S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:40:44 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:45389) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KN5YJ-0005DF-Ud for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:40:44 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KN5Rx-0001Xd-Lh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:34:10 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KN5XO-0003bj-Fr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:39:46 +0200 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:39:46 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080727123946.GC11242@thorin> References: <4888E3C5.9090707@t-online.de> <20080725204016.GD18149@thorin> <488B1E37.5000101@t-online.de> <1217138942.16601.6.camel@ct> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1217138942.16601.6.camel@ct> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] update-grub for Cygwin X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:40:46 -0000 On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 02:09:02AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 14:53 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > > Robert Millan wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:19:17PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > > > > > >> + case "`uname 2>/dev/null`" in > > >> + CYGWIN*) > > >> > > > > > > Could this be done at build time instead? (when generating update-grub > > > from update-grub.in) > > > > > > > > > > Yes, of course. Some alternatives: > ... > > I think it's better to have the check at the run time than any of those > alternatives. If we have many OS specific checks, then we can think how > to leave the relevant ones. At this point, it's probably not worth the > trouble. Ok I don't mind. It was just a suggestion. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)