Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 23:29:19 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scripts/ver_linux use 'gcc -dumpversion' |
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 20:36:19 +0200 Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > These magic greps and hacks in ver_linux to get the gcc version always break after some gcc releases. > > Since now gcc >4.3 allows compiling with '--with-pkgversion' ( which can be everything 'My Cool Gcc' or something ) > ver_linux will report random junk for these.
gcc sometimes looks like an anti-Linux plot.
> Simply use 'gcc -dumpversion' to get the gcc version which should always work. > > Signed-off-by: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> > --- > > Andrew sorry to bug you about that but > I have no clue how is maintaining scripts/*
Depends on the script, really. Most of them are Sam stuff.
> scripts/ver_linux | 5 +---- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux > index ab69ece..7ac0e30 100755 > --- a/scripts/ver_linux > +++ b/scripts/ver_linux > @@ -12,12 +12,9 @@ echo ' ' > uname -a > echo ' ' > > -gcc --version 2>&1| head -n 1 | grep -v gcc | awk \ > +gcc -dumpversion 2>&1| awk \ > 'NR==1{print "Gnu C ", $1}' > > -gcc --version 2>&1| grep gcc | awk \ > -'NR==1{print "Gnu C ", $3}' > - > make --version 2>&1 | awk -F, '{print $1}' | awk \ > '/GNU Make/{print "Gnu make ",$NF}'
including this one, I believe.
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