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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
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On Thu, Jun 10, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> I still don't like it very much.. why not chmod'ing it +x instead ? :-)

I looked at a few other scripts in the source tree, they are called with
$(CONFIG_SHELL) <name>, or perl <name>, or awk <name> or even sh <name>.

So my change adds some sort of consistency and makes packaging more robust.


Olaf