Re: + search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch

Oleg Verych
2007-02-08T06:35:00Z

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:58:26AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz> wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:19:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 06:24:40 +0100 Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >> > If that matter, `type -path' is bashizm (BloAted SHell), and "blackbox"
> >> > with "dash" (very good `sh' equivalents) will fail.
> >>
> >> Does the kernel presently build with that shell?
> >
> >build - yes, with dash being `$(shell)'. All scripts with `#!/bin/bash'
> >of course use bash, example is gen_initramfs_list.sh.
>
> which is what mkuboot.sh is using now
>
> >Trivial shell scripts, especially for embedded archs (Blackfin is
> >one, IIRC), may be easily converted.
>
> yes, but Blackfin is no-mmu so converting the script to use POSIX
> shell is pointless to us since no-mmu is not a self-hosting
> environment

Heh, did i say POSIX? I said bloated shell, from man bash:

BUGS
It's too big and too slow.

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