[PATCH] powerpc/boot: allow wrapper to work on non-english system

Laurent Vivier laurent at vivier.eu
Thu Nov 5 22:31:34 AEDT 2015


if the language is not english objdump output is not parsed correctly
and format is "". Later, "ld -m $format" fails.

This patch adds "LANG=C" to force english output for objdump.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent at vivier.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
index 3f50c27..1c0b6ec 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ if [ -z "$kernel" ]; then
     kernel=vmlinux
 fi
 
-elfformat="`${CROSS}objdump -p "$kernel" | grep 'file format' | awk '{print $4}'`"
+LANG=C elfformat="`${CROSS}objdump -p "$kernel" | grep 'file format' | awk '{print $4}'`"
 case "$elfformat" in
     elf64-powerpcle)	format=elf64lppc	;;
     elf64-powerpc)	format=elf32ppc	;;
-- 
2.5.0



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