[Buildroot] kernel patch not applied

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:47:27AM +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 17:34 +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:25:53PM +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
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>> >Aha, setting SHELL to /bin/bash makes this work, thanks.
>> >
>> >Perhaps the top level Makefile should modify SHELL for you?
>> 
>> The user is supposed to set the environment he wants to use.
>> This includes but is not limited to SHELL, HOSTCXX, HOSTCC, MAKE etc,
>> etc.
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>I understand HOST..., MAKE, etc. But since some of the scripts really
>depend on you using the bash shell, then I think it should be either
>forced or at least given a warning when starting to build.
>
>Will keep the noise a bit down on this email list if people know why
>some parts of the build process fails :)

I don't think depending on bash is desirable. The scripts should also
work at least with ash, imo. Short of that, $(wildcard ) comes to mind,
which would fix this proper in the realm of make (patches welcome).