[kbuild-all] [arm:for-next 9/11] awk: line 2: function strtonum never defined

[Fengguang Wu]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 06:05:40PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
>Hi Russell King,
>
>On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 10:06:42AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>Shall I repeat my question from the last time this was reported?
>
>Sorry I cannot find your reply in email archive. Looking at this
>error, the root cause should be strtonum requires gawk while what we
>installed is
>
>        mawk 1.3.3 Nov 1996, Copyright (C) Michael D. Brennan
>
>We can trivially install gawk and make it the default, however is gawk
>a requirement for kernel compilation? Or can we make it work with mawk,
>too?

Well gawk/mawk both defined int(), however it behaves different:

wfg ~% mawk 'BEGIN{print int("0xff")}'
255
wfg ~% gawk 'BEGIN{print int("0xff")}'
0
wfg ~% gawk 'BEGIN{print strtonum("0xff")}'
255

Thanks,
Fengguang

>>On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 09:52:08AM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
>>> Hi Russell,
>>>
>>> FYI, the error/warning still remains.
>>>
>>> tree:   git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm.git for-next
>>> head:   3cef8ede5ead55fbaf2225206f00361828adc3a1
>>> commit: 887518f5e9963a82c3fc2ad8911eedb2304f8c57 [9/11] ARM: decompressor: fix BSS size calculation
>>> config: arm-clps711x_defconfig (attached as .config)
>>> compiler: arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Debian 6.1.1-9) 6.1.1 20160705
>>> reproduce:
>>>         wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
>>>         chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
>>>         git checkout 887518f5e9963a82c3fc2ad8911eedb2304f8c57
>>>         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
>>>         make.cross ARCH=arm
>>>
>>> All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
>>>
>>> >> awk: line 2: function strtonum never defined
>>> >> awk: line 2: function strtonum never defined
>>> --
>>> >> awk: line 2: function strtonum never defined
>>> >> awk: line 2: function strtonum never defined
>>>    arm-linux-gnueabi-nm: 'arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../vmlinux': No such file
>>>
>>> ---
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