On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > headers_install.pl looks like this now. > I am not happy about the way I call unifdef - can it be > done better? > No error handling and I like to avid the extra tmp file. > > Sam > > #!/usr/bin/perl > # > # headers_install prepare the listed header files for use in > # user space and copy the files to their destination. > # > # Usage: headers_install.pl odir installdir [files...] > # odir: dir to open files > # install: dir to install the files > # files: list of files to check > # > # Step in preparation for users space: > # 1) Drop all use of compiler.h definitions > # 2) Drop include of compiler.h > # 3) Drop all sections defined out by __KERNEL__ > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my ($odir, $installdir, @files) = @ARGV; > > my $ret = 0; > > foreach my $file (@files) { > open(my $infile, '<', "$odir/$file") or die "$odir/$file: $!\n"; > open(my $outfile, '>', "$installdir/$file.tmp") or > die "$installdir/$file.tmp: $!\n"; > while (my $line = <$infile>) { > $line =~ s/([\s(])__user\s/$1/g; > $line =~ s/([\s(])__force\s/$1/g; > $line =~ s/([\s(])__iomem\s/$1/g; > $line =~ s/\s__attribute_const__\s/ /g; > $line =~ s/\s__attribute_const__$//g; > $line =~ s/^#include <linux\/compiler.h>//; > printf $outfile "%s", $line; > } > close($outfile); > close($outfile); Btw, this should probably be $infile if you decide to keep this version. > system "scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__ $installdir/$file.tmp > $installdir/$file" > } Yeah, it should be possible, but I fear that it involves the use of a bidirectional pipe. You want to pipe some data into the program and some data out of it. See perldoc perlipc ("Bidirectional Communication with Another Process"). In short, I think you'd need this: use FileHandle; use IPC::Open2; my($unifdef_in, $unifdef_out); open2($unifdef_in, $unifdef_out, 'scripts/unifdef', '-U__KERNEL__') ...; open(my $infile, '<', "$odir/$ofile") || die ...; while (my $line = <$infile>) { print $unifdef_in $line; } close $infile; close $unifdef_in; # Send EOF to unifdef, so that it sends EOF to us. open(my $outfile ...; while (my $line = <$unifdef_out>) { print $outfile $line; } close $outfile; close $unifdef_out; But as you see this is rather lengthy. I also don't know if it's correct (IOW, completely untested), so you may have to fiddle a bit to get it working. Good luck. Vegard -- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html