Merge lp://qastaging/~deeptik/linaro-ci/enable_custom_gcc_usage into lp://qastaging/linaro-ci

On 25 May 2012 10:39, Deepti B. Kalakeri wrote:
> === modified file 'jenkins_kernel_build_inst'
> --- jenkins_kernel_build_inst   2012-05-15 11:32:29 +0000
> +++ jenkins_kernel_build_inst   2012-05-25 07:38:17 +0000
> @@ -30,6 +30,19 @@
>  if test -z "$lava_test_plan"; then
>   lava_test_plan="ltp, pwrmgmt"
>  fi
> +
> +if test -z "$toolchain_url"; then
> +  gcc_compiler=`which arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc`
> +  gcc_cc_version=`dpkg -s gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi | grep Version | cut -d ' ' -f2`
> +else
> +  wget -cq $toolchain_url
> +  toolchain_tar_filename=`basename $toolchain_url`
> +  mkdir "toolchain"
> +  tar -C "toolchain"  --strip-components 1 -xf $toolchain_tar_filename
> +  gcc_compiler=`find $PWD/toolchain/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc |head -n1`
> +  gcc_cc_version=`$gcc_compiler --version | head -n 1 | awk -F ')' '{print  $2")"}' | sed 's/[\(\)]/ /g'`

1. version parsing is generic. gcc_cc_version could be common to both
the packaged toolchain and the binary toolchain.

2. the kernel provides scripts/gcc-version.sh, you can use it directly.
e.g. /path/to/kernel/sources/scripts/gcc-version.sh -p $gcc_compiler

Approved.