On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 4:48 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 04:23:02PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>> 'tune2fs' is located in varying places depending on the distro.
>> Current implementation output on distros where 'tune2fs' is found at
>> a location that is not available in the PATH for the regular user,
>> e.g. '/sbin', will have nothing to display.
>> While running 'ver_linux' as user 'root' should be OK.
>
> Instead of making all of these changes, why not just add
>
> PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
>
> to the beginning of ver_linux?
>
>                                         - Ted

Thanks for your feedback.

My understanding is that $PATH used to be set in ver_linux before. It
had been removed by the commit given below:

2008-07-31kbuild: scripts/ver_linux: don't set PATH
It would have saved both a bug submitter and me a few hours if
scripts/ver_linux had picked the same gcc as the build. Since I can't
see any reason why it fiddles with PATH at all this patch therefore
removes the PATH setting.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

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Perhaps a better approach would be for the user to set their $PATH
appropriately in their shell environment, rather than in ver_linux, as
suggested in the commentary found in ver_linux, instead of ver_linux
trying to guess where the binaries are. Which effectively makes my
other patch, path2bin_test.patch, redundant. Apologies for that.