Re: lsmod path hardcoded in v4l/Makefile

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On Dienstag, 23. Juni 2009, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 16:36 +0200, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> > > Hi list!
> > >
> > > It seems the path to lsmod tool is hardcoded in the Makefile for
> > > out-of-tree building of v4l-dvb.
> > > Now at least gentoo has moved lsmod from /sbin to /bin.
>
> Won't your patch cause breakage for everyone who hasn't moved lsmod from
> /sbin and doesn't have sbin in the path?  Which was, and perhaps still is,
> the most common situation?  It would be better to do something that does
> not break things that used to work.

root without sbin in path is bad and broken, isn't it?
If you really think this is too common, we could add
PATH=/sbin:/bin:$PATH
at the start of the Makefile.

Regards
Matthias
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