Re: [PATCH] ld-version: fix it on Fedora

[James Hogan]

Cc'ing Daniel, who has hit further breakage due to unusual version numbers.

On 7 January 2016 at 17:55, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fedora 23, ld --version outputs:
> GNU ld version 2.25-15.fc23
>
> But ld-version.sh fails to parse this, so e.g.  mips build fails to
> enable VDSO, printing a warning that binutils >= 2.24 is required.
>
> To fix, teach ld-version to parse this format.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Which tree should this be merged through? Mine? MIPS?
>
>  scripts/ld-version.sh | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh
> index 198580d..25d23c8 100755
> --- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
> +++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
> @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
>  # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number
>         {
>         gsub(".*)", "");
> +       gsub(".*version ", "");
> +       gsub("-.*", "");
>         split($1,a, ".");
>         print a[1]*10000000 + a[2]*100000 + a[3]*10000 + a[4]*100 + a[5];
>         exit
> --
> MST
>