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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scripts/ver_linux use 'gcc -dumpversion'
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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