From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: allow boards to check file size limits
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:24:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101019052444.9E043136320@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010190017.52346.vapier@gentoo.org>
Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message <201010190017.52346.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > > + @actual=`wc -c $@ | awk '{print $$1}'`; \
> >
> > How about using
> >
> > stat -c '%s'
> >
> > to get the file size in a single command, without need to actually
> > read all the data?
>
> because `stat` isnt portable :(. it isnt part of the POSIX standard ... OSX
> certainly does not support this, and i imagine most *BSD's dont.
I see (well, at least FreeBSD 8.1 has "stat"; their man page claims it
"appeared in NetBSD 1.6 and FreeBSD 4.10).
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 5:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-14 2:58 [U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: allow boards to check file size limits Mike Frysinger
2010-10-18 20:43 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-19 4:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-10-19 5:24 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2010-10-19 5:38 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-10-19 21:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-20 4:38 ` Vaibhav Bedia
2010-10-20 5:16 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-10-20 6:56 ` Vaibhav Bedia
2010-10-20 7:19 ` Wolfgang Denk
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