Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422882AbXBHGfA (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 01:35:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422898AbXBHGfA (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 01:35:00 -0500 Received: from raven.upol.cz ([158.194.120.4]:47617 "EHLO raven.upol.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422882AbXBHGe7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 01:34:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:43:47 +0100 To: Mike Frysinger Cc: Andrew Morton , Roman Zippel , sam@ravnborg.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kai Germaschewski Subject: Re: + search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch Message-ID: <20070208064347.GP22699@flower.upol.cz> References: <20070207165204.GA5537@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <20070207220435.GC22699@flower.upol.cz> <20070207203047.51a95ad0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070208052439.GL22699@flower.upol.cz> <20070207211921.1f0220a4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070208055832.GN22699@flower.upol.cz> <8bd0f97a0702072158r36046dd7w64a8c7b5da1a5f9a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0702072158r36046dd7w64a8c7b5da1a5f9a@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Palacky University in Olomouc, experimental physics department. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Oleg Verych Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1263 Lines: 35 On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:58:26AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 2/8/07, Oleg Verych 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 > >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. ____ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/