[U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: allow boards to check file size limits

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201010190017.52346.vapier at 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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