[U-Boot] buildman reports error of script/binutils-version.sh

[Dirk Behme]

On 23.11.2014 23:20, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 21 November 2014 at 16:36, York Sun <yorksun at freescale.com> wrote:
>> Simon,
>>
>> Shall we consider host error to be an error reported by buildman? I happen to
>> try a newer version of toolchain from Linaro. Buildman reports this error
>>
>>
>> +../scripts/binutils-version.sh: line 20: printf: 09: invalid octal number
>>
>> The root cause is this version of AS reports version string differently
>>
>> GNU assembler (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.9-2014.09 - Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.09)
>> 2.24.0.20140829 Linaro 2014.09
>>
>> It has "Linaro 2014.09" at the back, so script/binutils-version.sh cannot parse
>> it correctly (the error is not handling zero-leading numbers, but not in the
>> scope of this discussion).
>>
>> Another angle of this question is, why do we need this script? It doesn't sound
>> stable to me to parse the version string this way.
>
> That's another one in Masahiro's domain I think.

Are there any news/answers/fixes for this?

I'm getting above

+../scripts/binutils-version.sh: line 20: printf: 09: invalid octal number

too, with the Linaro 2014.09 tool chain.

Thanks,

Dirk