linux-kernel - [PATCH] fix unportability in gen_initramfs

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Message-ID: <47F380FD.6010605@openwrt.org>
Date:	Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:50:05 +0200
From:	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fix unportability in gen_initramfs_list.sh

On a Mac OS X machine the output of ls -l is different from a standard 
Linux machine. Use readlink instead of parsing a hardcoded field number 
from the ls output.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>

diff --git a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh b/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
index 684fb9c..5f3415f 100644
--- a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
+++ b/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ parse() {
    			str="${ftype} ${name} ${str} ${dev} ${maj} ${min}"
    			;;
    		"slink")
-			local target=`field 11 $(LC_ALL=C ls -l "${location}")`
+			local target=`readlink "${location}"`
    			str="${ftype} ${name} ${target} ${str}"
    			;;
    		*)


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