linux-kernel - Re: search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch

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Date:	Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:04:08 +0100
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>, sam@...nborg.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kai Germaschewski <kai@...maschewski.name>
Subject: Re: search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:40:28AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
[] 
> by this argument, why does mkuboot.sh exist at all then ?  let's
> simply delete mkuboot.sh and change all arch Makefile's like so:
> -    $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(MKIMAGE) ...
> +    -mkimage ...

Yes (with TOOLCHAIN prefix).

> i of course prefer the existing solution: call the mkuboot.sh script
> which checks for a few variations of the `mkimage` binary and if it
> does not exist, output a friendly message

so as `make' will, but better than patched "friendly message", which
doesn't reflect: neither change to toolchain prefix, nor possible
permission problems, or what ever it can be, preventing actual running
the command ;)

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