Bug in wc.

[walter harms]

Mike Frysinger schrieb:
> On Monday 08 March 2010 13:03:03 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:48:50PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>>> The busybox "wc" command doesn't work to build mips in 2.6.33.  Kernel
>>> commit
>>>
>>> VMLINUX_SIZE := $(shell wc -c $(objtree)/$(KBUILD_IMAGE) 2>/dev/null | \
>>>
>>> 	cut -d' ' -f1)
>> cool stuff. I guess
>> VMLINUX_SIZE := $(firstword $(shell wc -c $(objtree)/$(KBUILD_IMAGE)
>>> 2>/dev/null)) or 'stat -c %s' would have been too simple? Perhaps you can
>> suggest this to the kernel folks.
> 
> `stat` is not in POSIX, so this would be an annoying regression
> 
> sending the output through `echo` would also normalize the whitespace
> -mike


if stat does not work ls will do:  'ls -1s'

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