Re: [PATCH] [RFC] implement size_append in perl

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:01:03PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> The current implementation has been several times fixed to work around
> different shells and build environments and it remains a somewhat tricky
> shell script. This patch replaces all the dependencies by a single line
> of perl. Build dependency on perl is not new, so that shouldn't be a
> problem.
> 
> The new implementation does exactly what it's supposed to: it outputs
> a little-endian 32-bit unsigned integer of a file's length.
> 
> This might simplify matters with different build environments and
> different shells and is also considerably shorter and hopefully more
> readable.

Reminds me that I had a patch that moved this to mkpiggy.c.
Goggle gave this hit:

    http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2009/12/20/92

I will try to update this to cover arm also and check
if other archs needs this.

In other word - move thes size stuff to mkpiggy so we
skip this extra step.

	Sam
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