From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from vs166246.vserver.de (vs166246.vserver.de [62.75.166.246]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BFFDDE16 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:36:39 +1100 (EST) From: Michael Buesch To: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Do not fail build if mkimage is not available Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:35:42 +0100 References: <200712261453.41849.mb@bu3sch.de> <200712261610.28489.mb@bu3sch.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200712261635.43188.mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@au.ibm.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wednesday 26 December 2007 16:33:57 Andreas Schwab wrote: > Michael Buesch writes: > > > On Wednesday 26 December 2007 15:47:05 Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> Michael Buesch writes: > >> > >> > + if ! [ -x mkimage ]; then > >> > >> What is this supposed to test? > > > > from man test: > > You didn't answer my question. I'm not sure how I can make the manual text any clearer -x FILE FILE exists and execute (or search) permission is granted It tests if the program exists and is executable. Could you please be more specific about what you don't understand? That would help a lot not wasting my time. -- Greetings Michael.