From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] ia64: don't assume that unwcheck.py is executable
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:28:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071206222836.GA25209@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712052232.lB5MWE3W028394@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:05:15PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > What was the exact reason switching to phython and can we do the same in perl?
>
> It was a shell script (using awk) before it was pythonised. The
> motivation was correct functionality when cross-building on a
> 32-bit host. Here's the commit:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/28hmoc
If you read the comments in the phyton file is says:
+# Based on a shell/awk script originally written by Harish Patil,
+# which was converted to Perl by Matthew Chapman, which was converted
+# to Python by David Mosberger.
So somewhere a perl variant has existed.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-06 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-05 22:32 [patch 2/3] ia64: don't assume that unwcheck.py is executable akpm
2007-12-05 23:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-05 23:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-05 23:25 ` Luck, Tony
2007-12-05 23:40 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-05 23:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-06 7:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-12-06 8:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 21:34 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-12-06 22:05 ` Luck, Tony
2007-12-06 22:28 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-12-06 22:44 ` Luck, Tony
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