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Re: How Linus distro like Fedora named all utilities binary file prefixe


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Subject: Re: How Linus distro like Fedora named all utilities binary file prefixed with grub2-*
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:50:11 +0800

>> Hi,
>>
>> Anyone teach me how grub 2 build from source but all utilities binary file will prefixed with grub2-*,
>> e.g /usr/bin/grub-mkimage will installed as /usr/bin/grub2-mkimage, yes, Fedora did it.
>>
>> I've checked some web pages especially "https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/tree/rawhide"
>> but I can not find out how Redhat let GRUB 2 utilities all prefixed with 'grub2'(such as grub-mkimage
>> changed to grub2-mkimage as I said above), it is too much noise and hard for me to find the expected lines.
>>
>> One more thing, I am not talking about grub leacy and sorry about my poor English :P

> It's likely done by passing --program-transform-name to configure. For example:
> ./configure --program-transform-name="s,grub,grub2,"

Wow, thats it! Thanks a lot.

> We used to do that on Gentoo, but switched back to the "grub-" names a
> few years ago.

Changes like this situation always prefer looks like a joke for newbie,
and the world always change,
but kind heart communite people like you help newbie growing up.

Thanks again.

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