linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ld-version: fix it on Fedora

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Message-ID: <CAAG0J995iCNwdN6PpuJfzo+TVWNXR3UVqS9v-4HXbryyvMn+=w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:05:45 +0000
From:	James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Daniel Sanders <Daniel.Sanders@...tec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ld-version: fix it on Fedora

Cc'ing Daniel, who has hit further breakage due to unusual version numbers.

On 7 January 2016 at 17:55, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Fedora 23, ld --version outputs:
> GNU ld version 2.25-15.fc23
>
> But ld-version.sh fails to parse this, so e.g.  mips build fails to
> enable VDSO, printing a warning that binutils >= 2.24 is required.
>
> To fix, teach ld-version to parse this format.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> ---
>
> Which tree should this be merged through? Mine? MIPS?
>
>  scripts/ld-version.sh | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh
> index 198580d..25d23c8 100755
> --- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
> +++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
> @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
>  # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number
>         {
>         gsub(".*)", "");
> +       gsub(".*version ", "");
> +       gsub("-.*", "");
>         split($1,a, ".");
>         print a[1]*10000000 + a[2]*100000 + a[3]*10000 + a[4]*100 + a[5];
>         exit
> --
> MST
>