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

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi York, Dirk,


On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:33:05 +0100
Dirk Behme <dirk.behme at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.




Sorry for my late reply about this.


I think this patch can solve the problem
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/424032/



Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada