Bug#473144: provide {loadlin,gzip,cpio}.exe for dynamic use

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:57:56PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 06:35:20PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Friday 28 March 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > This patch adds them in their own win32-loader/ directory, so that newer
> > > versions can get these files from there instead.
> > 
> > At first glance it seems that the Makefile has the same or very similar code 
> > to create a win32-loader.ini file multiple times. Couldn't you add a file 
> > somewhere below the build/boot/ dir and just copy that instead?
> 
> Will give that a try tomorrow.

I just had a look, and it doesn't seem that simple.  This diff is the result
of replacing the second and third blobs with the first one.

As you can see, there are differences in filename paths and such:

--- build/config/x86.cfg~       2008-03-28 17:21:56.000000000 +0100
+++ build/config/x86.cfg        2008-03-29 00:21:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -193,11 +193,11 @@
        (echo -en "[installer]\n"; \
        echo -en "arch=$(ARCH)\n"; \
        if [ -n "$(INITRD_GTK)" ]; then \
-               echo -en "$(ARCH)/linux=install/vmlinuz\n$(ARCH)/initrd=install/initrd.gz\n"; \
-               echo -en "$(ARCH)/gtk/linux=install/vmlinuz\n$(ARCH)/gtk/initrd=install/gtk/initrd.gz\n"; \
+               echo -en "$(ARCH)/linux=linux\n$(ARCH)/initrd=initrd.gz\n"; \
+               echo -en "$(ARCH)/gtk/linux=linux\n$(ARCH)/gtk/initrd=initrdg.gz\n"; \
        else \
                echo -en "user_interface=text\n"; \
-               echo -en "$(ARCH)/linux=install/vmlinuz\n$(ARCH)/initrd=install/initrd.gz\n"; \
+               echo -en "$(ARCH)/linux=linux\n$(ARCH)/initrd=initrd.gz\n"; \
        fi; \
        echo -en "\n[util]\n"; \
        echo -en "grub=win32-loader\\\\g2ldr\ngrub.mbr=win32-loader\\\\g2ldr.mbr\n"; \
@@ -250,9 +250,9 @@
        # win32-loader.ini
        (echo -en "[installer]\n"; \
        echo -en "arch=$(ARCH)\n"; \
-       if [ "$(TYPE)" = "netboot/gtk" ]; then \
-               echo -en "user_interface=graphical\n"; \
-               echo -en "$(ARCH)/gtk/linux=linux\n$(ARCH)/gtk/initrd=initrd.gz\n"; \
+       if [ -n "$(INITRD_GTK)" ]; then \
+               echo -en "$(ARCH)/linux=linux\n$(ARCH)/initrd=initrd.gz\n"; \
+               echo -en "$(ARCH)/gtk/linux=linux\n$(ARCH)/gtk/initrd=initrdg.gz\n"; \
        else \
                echo -en "user_interface=text\n"; \
                echo -en "$(ARCH)/linux=linux\n$(ARCH)/initrd=initrd.gz\n"; \

-- 
Robert Millan

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