Re: [flashrom] [PATCH 1/1] Define dmidecode path at a build stage

[Peter Lemenkov]

Hello!

2010/9/14 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger :
> One way to do this would be to keep the "dmidecode" string as is if
> we're doing cross compilation.
> Another way would be an additional internal programmer parameter like this:
> flashrom -p internal:dmidecode_path=/usr/sbin/dmidecode
> Yet another solution would be to finally integrate the internal dmi
> decoder patch into flashrom and kill the dmidecode dependency that way.

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> What do you think of my suggestions above?

I'm pretty sure that adding a small out-of-tree patch which just
substitutes "dmidecode" string in dmi.c with full path to dmidecode
would be a much simpler solution than trying to overcome all these
difficulties, so please disregard this particular patch.