[RFC] broken installkernel.sh with CROSS_COMPILE

[Ian Campbell]

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 13:39 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> I noticed that my cross-compilation 'make install' broke with 2.6.13 (I
> don't use it horribly often).  It's from this commit:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f8e2d62fa04441cd12c08ce521e84e5bd3f8a46
> 
> Which added CROSS_COMPILE to each arch's install.sh:
> 
> if [ -x ~/bin/${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel ]; then exec ~/bin/${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel "$@"; fi
> 
> However, I don't just have a simple arch name as my CROSS_COMPILE, I
> have a whole path

Ah, I didn't consider that case, sorry.

> , so that line expands like this for me:
> 
> + '[' -x /home/dave/bin//home/services/cross_compile/ppc64/bin/ppc64-linux-gnu-installkernel ']'
> 
> Needless to say, that doesn't work :)
> 
> Could we do something that's guaranteed to not have lots of extra path
> elements in it, like ARCH?

Or perhaps basename ${CROSSCOMPILE}?

Ian.

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