From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:28:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] ia64: don't assume that unwcheck.py is executable Message-Id: <20071206222836.GA25209@uranus.ravnborg.org> List-Id: References: <200712052232.lB5MWE3W028394@imap1.linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200712052232.lB5MWE3W028394@imap1.linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.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