[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 1/2] tools, config.mk: add binutils-version

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday 19 July 2012 11:38:39 Tom Rini wrote:
> On 07/19/2012 08:21 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 July 2012 11:08:10 Tom Rini wrote:
> >> On 07/18/2012 08:11 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday 18 July 2012 19:45:52 Allen Martin wrote:
> >>>> +MAJOR=$($gas --version | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' | cut -d . -f 1)
> >>>> +MINOR=$($gas --version | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' | cut -d . -f 2)
> >>>> +
> >>>> +printf "%02d%02d\\n" $MAJOR $MINOR
> >>> 
> >>> can be replaced with a single awk script:
> >>> 
> >>> $gas --version | awk '{ gsub(/[.]/, " ", $NF) $0 = $NF printf
> >>> "%02d%02d\n", $1, $2 exit }'
> >> 
> >> That looks much longer and we call this once so a few execs is
> >> noise.
> > 
> > here's a shorter version: $gas --version | awk '{ gsub(/[.]/, " ",
> > $NF); $0 = $NF; printf "%02d%02d\n", $1, $2; exit }'
> 
> And still over 80 chars before we assign it to a variable.  I could
> get it to 77 chars with all whitespace removed.

which is why i unrolled it to make it readable.  i don't know what metrics 
you're using here, but i don't think the awk version is "longer" by really any 
of them.
-mike
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