The latest version of grep claims the egrep is now obsolete so the build now contains warnings that look like: egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E fix this up by moving the related file to use "grep -E" instead.
sed -i "s/egrep/grep -E/g" `grep egrep -rwl arch/powerpc` Here are the steps to install the latest grep: wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.8.tar.gz tar xf grep-3.8.tar.gz cd grep-3.8 && ./configure && make sudo make install export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtie...@loongson.cn> --- arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper index 5bdd4dd..a86ae11 100755 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ ps3) # reached, then enter the system reset vector of the partially decompressed # image. No warning is issued. rm -f "$odir"/{otheros,otheros-too-big}.bld - size=$(${CROSS}nm --no-sort --radix=d "$ofile" | egrep ' _end$' | cut -d' ' -f1) + size=$(${CROSS}nm --no-sort --radix=d "$ofile" | grep -E ' _end$' | cut -d' ' -f1) bld="otheros.bld" if [ $size -gt $((0x1000000)) ]; then bld="otheros-too-big.bld" -- 2.1.0