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Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 13:49:57 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vgoyal@...hat.com, hbabu@...ibm.com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org, ying.huang@...el.com, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, ebiederm@...ssion.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/14] kbuild: allow compressors (gzip, bzip2, lzma) to take multiple inputs Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > I did a quick attempt to integrate it in the Makefile - not pretty. > So I dropped that idea. > > It is mainly that we should not fill up scripts/ with small > undocumented scripts. > > Could you add something like this in the top of the file: > > # Find the sum of the size of all files specified and > # output the size as an escaped hex string. > # > # Sample: > # $ ls -l foo > # $ -rw-rw-r-- 1 xxx xxx 146 May 8 22:28 foo > # $ bin_size foo > # $ \\x92\\x00\\x00\\x00 > # 146 equals 92 hex > OK, I see your point (especially since that's not what it does.) To be honest, how ugly would it be to get a C program in here? Doing this in shell is horrid, and people tend to whine about Perl (which is perfect for this kind of job.) -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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