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

[Simon Glass]

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.

Regards,
Simon