linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/14] kbuild: allow compressors (gzip, bzip2, lzma) to take multiple inputs

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Message-ID: <4A049AF5.7090300@zytor.com>
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

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