From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760900Ab3BMVoq (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:44:46 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15655 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752080Ab3BMVop (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:44:45 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason Wessel , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, Andi Kleen , Ben Widawsky , Borislav Petkov , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/20] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure References: <99da3a9930c678555d260206688158441d2bab05.1359463075.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com> X-Attribution: Tom Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:43:37 -0700 In-Reply-To: <99da3a9930c678555d260206688158441d2bab05.1359463075.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com> (Jan Kiszka's message of "Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:37:44 +0100") Message-ID: <87liarkhyu.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.92 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kiszka writes: Jan> +if gdb_version < "7.1": Jan> + print "NOTE: gdb 7.1 or later required for Linux helper scripts " \ Jan> + "to work." FWIW you can just directly feature-test for the things you know you need. Like: if not hasattr(gdb, 'parse_and_eval'): ... In this case, 7.1 is old enough that it probably doesn't matter. For newer things, though, it is better to feature-test because distros sometimes forward-port patches, so the version number isn't a reliable indicator. Tom