Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:13:39 +0600 | | From | "Alexander E. Patrakov" <> | | Subject | Re: headers_install broken on early versions of perl | |
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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