Stephen Rothwell wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2020: > On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:01:30 +0100 Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I guess it's possible to make kbuild check both sbin and PATH, would > > that be acceptable? > > I guess so. But, have you actually found any setup where depmod is not > /sbin/depmod? i.e. what problem are you trying to solve. As far as I > can see all this change does is (ever so slightly) slow down the build > for no gain. On nixos, depmod is in /run/current-system/sw/bin/depmod (as a link to /nix/store/r3r39rzsrikdsv68rvswn3hhank706gj-kmod-27/bin/depmod or wherever the current version wants to be). developers on guix probably face the same problem. There is no sbin, the only things in /bin is sh, and in /usr/bin env as I think is mandated by posix. For their official builds they just modify the build scripts in place before starting the build, but for dev as I keep rebasing it's annoying to keep a couple of local patches just for this. I could obviously manually create a link from /sbin/depmod to the current system's but that doesn't solve the problem for all other nixos users. I'll send an updated patch later today.. -- Dominique
