Re: [Patch] make installkernel configurable from command line (wasRe: how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root?)

From: AmÃrico Wang
Date: Tue Jan 25 2011 - 00:48:16 EST


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:43:14PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>NAK -- this breaks existing setups which rely on /root/bin/installkernel
>being picked up automatically.
>
>Can you handle 'make INSTALLKERNEL=...' without breaking that please?

Yes, here we go.

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Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

---
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1f47495..44abded 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ OBJCOPY = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy
OBJDUMP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objdump
AWK = awk
GENKSYMS = scripts/genksyms/genksyms
-INSTALLKERNEL := installkernel
+INSTALLKERNEL ?= /sbin/installkernel
DEPMOD = /sbin/depmod
KALLSYMS = scripts/kallsyms
PERL = perl
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/install.sh b/arch/x86/boot/install.sh
index d13ec1c..c8c9a92 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/install.sh
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/install.sh
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ verify "$3"

# User may have a custom install script

-if [ -x ~/bin/${INSTALLKERNEL} ]; then exec ~/bin/${INSTALLKERNEL} "$@"; fi
-if [ -x /sbin/${INSTALLKERNEL} ]; then exec /sbin/${INSTALLKERNEL} "$@"; fi
+if [ -x ~/bin/installkernel ]; then exec ~/bin/installkernel "$@"; fi
+if [ -x "${INSTALLKERNEL}" ]; then exec "${INSTALLKERNEL}" "$@"; fi

# Default install - same as make zlilo

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