From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>
To: Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@lightcubesolutions.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: headers_install broken on early versions of perl
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:13:39 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F810F3.8080409@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EA1CEB12-7E00-4939-AFA9-84B865E185B4@lightcubesolutions.com>
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This may not be a very large concern, but the new headers_install.pl and
> headers_check.pl scripts do not work with versions of Perl < 5.6.0. This
> is largely to do with syntax changes in that version. Previously, open()
> only allowed two arguments. The following patch (against 2.6.27.1)
> alters the syntax to be backwards compatible with earlier versions. It
> has been tested on 5.005_03, and 5.8.8.
>
> Please CC me on any comments as I am not subscribed to this list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy Huntwork
>
>
> diff -Naur linux-2.6.27.1.orig/scripts/headers_check.pl
> linux-2.6.27.1/scripts/headers_check.pl
> --- linux-2.6.27.1.orig/scripts/headers_check.pl Wed Oct 15
> 19:02:53 2008
> +++ linux-2.6.27.1/scripts/headers_check.pl Thu Oct 16 19:10:37 2008
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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2008-10-17 3:36 headers_install broken on early versions of perl Jeremy Huntwork
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