[PATCH 4.4 50/50] ld-version: Fix awk regex compile failure

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-03-14T17:54:52Z

From: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>

commit 4b7b1ef2c2f83d702272555e8adb839a50ba0f8e upstream.

The ld-version.sh script fails on some versions of awk with the
following error, resulting in build failures for MIPS:

awk: scripts/ld-version.sh: line 4: regular expression compile failed (missing '(')

This is due to the regular expression ".*)", meant to strip off the
beginning of the ld version string up to the close bracket, however
brackets have a meaning in regular expressions, so lets escape it so
that awk doesn't expect a corresponding open bracket.

Fixes: ccbef1674a15 ("Kbuild, lto: add ld-version and ld-ifversion ...")
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12838/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
scripts/ld-version.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
# extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number
{
- gsub(".*)", "");
+ gsub(".*\\)", "");
split($1,a, ".");
print a[1]*10000000 + a[2]*100000 + a[3]*10000 + a[4]*100 + a[5];
exit