Tom G. Christensen wrote: > Brandon Casey wrote: >> Some versions of perl complain when 'STDERR' is used as the third >> argument >> in the 3-argument form of open(). Convert to the 2-argument form which is >> described for duping STDERR in my second edition camel book. >> >> The object oriented version of File::Temp is a rather new incarnation it >> seems. The File::Temp man page for v5.8.0 says "(NOT YET IMPLEMENTED)" in >> the 'Objects' section. These can be converted to use >> File::Temp::tempfile(). >> >> Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > Tested-by: Tom G. Christensen <tgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Without this patch the testsuite will fail with perl 5.8.0: > t9700$ ./test.pl > ok 1 - use Git; > Bareword "STDERR" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at ./test.pl > line 41. > Execution of ./test.pl aborted due to compilation errors. > 1..1 > # Looks like your test died just after 1. > > > Could we please get this patch in? Junio had asked me to follow up on that patch at a later time, so thanks for prodding. Here is an alternative which _removes_ the File::Temp requirement. -brandon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html