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

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Date:	Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:43:47 +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 12:58:26AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.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@...wer.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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