tools build: Add 3-component logical version comparators

The next cset needs to compare if a flex version is greater or
equal/less than another, but since there is no canonical, generally
available way to compare versions in the command line (sort -V, yeah,
but...), just use awk to canonicalize the versions like is also done in
scripts/rust_is_available.sh.

There was a problem spotted in linux-next where a bashism, here
documents, aka the '<<<' stdin redirector, for strings to be used as the
stdin for awk. Use $(shell echo | awk ...) instead.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

tools/scripts/utilities.mak

@@ -177,3 +177,23 @@ $(if $($(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$($(1)),$(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$(2)))
 endef
 _ge_attempt = $(or $(get-executable),$(call _gea_err,$(2)))
 _gea_err  = $(if $(1),$(error Please set '$(1)' appropriately))
+
+# version-ge3
+#
+# Usage $(call version-ge3,2.6.4,$(FLEX_VERSION))
+#
+# To compare if a 3 component version is greater or equal to another, first use
+# was to check the flex version to see if we can use compiler warnings as
+# errors for one of the cases flex generates code C compilers complains about.
+
+version-ge3 = $(shell echo "$(1).$(2)" | awk -F'.' '{ printf("%d\n", (10000000 * $$1 + 10000 * $$2 + $$3) >= (10000000 * $$4 + 10000 * $$5 + $$6)) }')
+
+# version-lt3
+#
+# Usage $(call version-lt3,2.6.2,$(FLEX_VERSION))
+#
+# To compare if a 3 component version is less thjan another, first use was to
+# check the flex version to see if we can use compiler warnings as errors for
+# one of the cases flex generates code C compilers complains about.
+
+version-lt3 = $(shell echo "$(1).$(2)" | awk -F'.' '{ printf("%d\n", (10000000 * $$1 + 10000 * $$2 + $$3) < (10000000 * $$4 + 10000 * $$5 + $$6)) }')