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

Mike Frysinger
2007-02-08T05:58:29Z

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
-mike