[PATCH] perf: version incorrect with some versions of grep

[Josh Hunt]

Some versions of grep don't treat '\s' properly. When building perf on
such systems and using a kernel tarball the perf version is unable to be
determined from the main kernel Makefile and the user is left with a version
of '..'. Replacing the use of '\s' with '[[:space:]]', which should work
in all grep versions, gives a usable version number.

Reported-by: Tapan Dhimant <tdhimant@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
index 97d7656..26d4d3f 100755
--- a/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ if test -d ../../.git -o -f ../../.git &&
 then
 	VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/-/./g');
 else
-	eval `grep '^VERSION\s*=' ../../Makefile|tr -d ' '`
-	eval `grep '^PATCHLEVEL\s*=' ../../Makefile|tr -d ' '`
-	eval `grep '^SUBLEVEL\s*=' ../../Makefile|tr -d ' '`
-	eval `grep '^EXTRAVERSION\s*=' ../../Makefile|tr -d ' '`
+	eval $(grep '^VERSION[[:space:]]*=' ../../Makefile|tr -d ' ')
+	eval $(grep '^PATCHLEVEL[[:space:]]*=' ../../Makefile|tr -d ' ')
+	eval $(grep '^SUBLEVEL[[:space:]]*=' ../../Makefile|tr -d ' ')
+	eval $(grep '^EXTRAVERSION[[:space:]]*=' ../../Makefile|tr -d ' ')
 
 	VN="${VERSION}.${PATCHLEVEL}.${SUBLEVEL}${EXTRAVERSION}"
 fi
-- 
1.7.0.4

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