While we're complaining about modutils: it took me a long time to figure
out that 'depmod -a' depends on having a /bin/sh that knows how to deal
with csh-type string expansion (with {}). After hours of screwing with
it I finally strace'd depmod and got things like:
access("/linux/modules/*.{mod,o}", 4) = -1 (No such file or directory)
Ohhhh...
Call me a traditionalist if you must, but the idea of having /bin/sh
with all this junk built into it is Not the Right Thing to Do. I always
build two copies of bash, one kitchen-sink version and one minimal
version. The only time I use the bloated, kitchen-sink version is to
set up module dependencies.
There, I feel better.
-- Andrew Tristan No one shall drive us out of the andrew@babylon.riverside.ca.us paradise that Cantor has created. atristan@galaxy.ucr.edu David Hilbert