linux-kernel - [PATCH] kheaders: use `command -v` to test for existence of `cpio`

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Message-ID: <20240528163150.410706-1-ojeda@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 18:31:50 +0200
From: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	patches@...ts.linux.dev,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kheaders: use `command -v` to test for existence of `cpio`

Commit 13e1df09284d ("kheaders: explicitly validate existence of cpio
command") added an explicit check for `cpio` using `type`.

However, `type` in `dash` (which is used in some popular distributions
and base images as the shell script runner) prints the missing message
to standard output, and thus no error is printed:

    $ bash -c 'type missing >/dev/null'
    bash: line 1: type: missing: not found
    $ dash -c 'type missing >/dev/null'
    $

For instance, this issue may be seen by loongarch builders, given its
defconfig enables CONFIG_IKHEADERS since commit 9cc1df421f00 ("LoongArch:
Update Loongson-3 default config file").

Therefore, use `command -v` instead to have consistent behavior, and
take the chance to provide a more explicit error.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/gen_kheaders.sh | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
index 6d443ea22bb7..4ba5fd3d73ae 100755
--- a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
+++ b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ include/
 arch/$SRCARCH/include/
 "
 
-type cpio > /dev/null
+if ! command -v cpio >/dev/null; then
+	echo >&2 "***"
+	echo >&2 "*** 'cpio' could not be found."
+	echo >&2 "***"
+	exit 1
+fi
 
 # Support incremental builds by skipping archive generation
 # if timestamps of files being archived are not changed.

base-commit: 1613e604df0cd359cf2a7fbd9be7a0bcfacfabd0
-- 
2.45.1