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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] ld-version: use /usr/bin/env awk for shebank
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Hi Dominique and Dave,

On 12/9/20 10:03 PM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Dominique Martinet
>> Sent: 09 December 2020 17:43
>>
>> I've suggested either just reverting this (I'll keep my local
>> workaround) or going through /bin/sh which is always safe like the
>> following patch -- leaving this to maintainers.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -----
>> From d53ef3b4c55aa2ea5f9ae887b3e1ace368f30f66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:00:13 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] ld-version: use /bin/sh then awk for shebank
>>
>> /usr/bin/awk is not garanteed to exist (and doesn't on e.g. nixos),
>> using /bin/sh and invoking awk to have it look in PATH is more robust.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh
>> index f2be0ff9a738..02dbad7b5613 100755
>> --- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
>> +++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
>> @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
>> -#!/usr/bin/awk -f
>> +#!/bin/sh
>> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number
>> - {
>> +awk '{
>> gsub(".*\\)", "");
>> gsub(".*version ", "");
>> gsub("-.*", "");
>> split($1,a, ".");
>> print a[1]*100000000 + a[2]*1000000 + a[3]*10000;
>> exit
>> - }
>> +}'
>
> Why bother with awk?
> I think you can do it all in a shell function.
> Something like:
> read line
> line=${line##*)}
> line=${line##*version }
> IFS='.-'
> set $line
> echo $(($1*100000000 + $2*1000000 + $3*10000))
>
> That will work on any recent shell.
>

I would suggest to revert the patch for now since we are close to the merge
window and then maybe in -rc1 start discussing a better solution.

What do you think?

> David
>
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Regards,
Vincenzo

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