Re: [patch] search a little harder for mkimage

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:20:42 -0500
"Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote:

> this small patch checks to see if `${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage` exists and
> if not, fall back to the standard `mkimage`
> 
> the Blackfin toolchain includes mkimage, but we dont want to namespace
> collide with any of the user's system setup, so we prefix it with our
> toolchain name
> -mike
> 
> 
> [check-cross-compile-mkimage.patch  text/x-patch (708B)]
> Check to see if the mkimage tool is part of the cross-compile toolchain.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> 
> --- a/linux-2.6/scripts/mkuboot.sh
> +++ b/linux-2.6/scripts/mkuboot.sh
> @@ -4,12 +4,15 @@
>  # Build U-Boot image when `mkimage' tool is available.
>  #
>  
> -MKIMAGE=$(type -path mkimage)
> +MKIMAGE=$(type -path ${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage)

Do all bash versions support `type -path'?

Perhaps /usr/bin/which would be safer, dunno.