Re: bin/53553: gpt biosboot forcibly prepends /usr/mdec to any other paht

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/53553; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/53553: gpt biosboot forcibly prepends /usr/mdec to any other paht
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 07:05:56 +0700

     Date:        Sat, 25 Aug 2018 22:20:00 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        eric%cirr.com@localhost
     Message-ID:  <20180825222000.986E47A111%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   | 	It seems that gpt is forcibly prepending '/usr/mdec' on
   | 	any path that has a directory seperator in it?  Or any file
   | 	that is not in the current working directory?
 
 It uses /usr/mdec for any name that isn't a full path name.   I'm guessing
 that when you did the later tests you still have gptmbr.bin installed in
 /usr/mdec - it would have been using that one.
 
   | 	Work-around: move to the same directory as the biosboot image file.
 
 Use a full path name if you want to get the file from elsewhere.
 
 Whether it could allow more flexibility (not prepend /usr/mdec if the name
 starts ./ or ../ as well as /) is someone else's decision, but at the very 
 least the man page needs improvement.
 
 kre