Ron has been doing really good work over in v3. The problem is that the work got...

[coreboot.git] / targets / buildtarget

diff --git a/targets/buildtarget b/targets/buildtarget
index ae50d732797c667afbb641d46b05718dee17a817..02694a2411f562cc3944da8a68231fdad6512cdf 100755 (executable)
--- a/targets/buildtarget
+++ b/targets/buildtarget
@@ -69,9 +69,12 @@ fi
 
 rm -rf .$$.tmp
 
-$CC -Wl,--help | awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) if ($i ~ /build-id/){n++} }; END {exit n}'
-build_id=$?
-if [ $build_id -ge 1 ] ; then
+# The linker output fd depends on the gcc version.
+#  1) 'ld-2.15 --help' and 'gcc-4.0 -Wl,--help' use STDOUT.
+#  2) 'gcc-3.3 --help' and 'gcc-3.4 -Wl,--help' use STDERR.
+# Thus older versions of GCC (presumably 3.x) implement a redirection of
+# output to stderr. Re-redirect stderr to stdout to work always.
+if $CC -Wl,--help 2>&1 | grep -q build-id; then
        EXTRA_LFLAGS="$EXTRA_LFLAGS -Wl,--build-id=none"
 fi