linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: enforce sane perl version

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Message-ID: <1375138880.2075.82.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:01:20 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: enforce sane perl version

On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 15:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:10:13 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 13:06 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> > > I got a bug report from a couple of users who said
> > > checkpatch.pl was broken for them.  It was erroring out on
> > > fairly random lines most commonly with messages like:
> > > 
> > > 	Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <--HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at ./checkpatch.pl line 340.
> > > 
> > > The bug reporter was running a version of perl 5.8 which was
> > > end-of-lifed in 2008
[]
> > Other than Andrew Morton's (continuing?) use of perl 5.8
> > I'm fine with this.
> > 
> > Andrew?  Time to update your perl version?
> 
> I run an FC6 test box just to irritate you guys.

;)

yabut do you (have to) use checkpatch on that
creakingly old test box?

Maybe I can find a box with slackware 2.0 for you.
It had perl 5.0.0.


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