Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix objdump version check in arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk

[Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 04:04 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>>>
>>> Warning: objdump version  is older than 2.19
>>> Warning: Skipping posttest.
>>>
>>> because it used the wrong field from `objdump -v':
>>>
>>> akpm:/usr/src/25> /opt/crosstool/gcc-4.0.2-glibc-2.3.6/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-objdump -v
>>> GNU objdump 2.16.1
>>> Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
>>> the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
>>
>>
>> Oh, I didn't know that.
>> On my environment, objdump shows version in below format.
>> ---
>> $ objdump -v
>> GNU objdump version 2.19.51.0.14-1.fc11 20090722
>> Copyright 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
>> the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
>> This program has absolutely no warranty.
>> ---
>>
>> Hmm, maybe, we need to check if ($3 == "version") to decide
>> which argument we should use.
>>
> 
> How about looking for the first argument that starts with a number?

Sure, that's also possible. :-)

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com