On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:23:37 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:01:03PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > > The current implementation has been several times fixed to work around > > different shells and build environments and it remains a somewhat tricky > > shell script. This patch replaces all the dependencies by a single line > > of perl. Build dependency on perl is not new, so that shouldn't be a > > problem. > > > > The new implementation does exactly what it's supposed to: it outputs > > a little-endian 32-bit unsigned integer of a file's length. > > > > This might simplify matters with different build environments and > > different shells and is also considerably shorter and hopefully more > > readable. > > Reminds me that I had a patch that moved this to mkpiggy.c. > Goggle gave this hit: > > http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2009/12/20/92 Ok, thanks for the reference. > I will try to update this to cover arm also and check > if other archs needs this. > > In other word - move thes size stuff to mkpiggy so we > skip this extra step. Hm, maybe this mkpiggy can be made arch-independent and moved to scripts/ as well? Regards, -- Alex -- 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