2017-05-08 5:37 GMT+09:00 Kamil Rytarowski <n54@xxxxxxx>: > On 07.05.2017 22:22, Joe Perches wrote: >> On Sun, 2017-05-07 at 22:14 +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >>> On 07.05.2017 19:01, Joe Perches wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2017-05-07 at 16:56 +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >>>>> The default NetBSD package manager is pkgsrc and it installs Perl >>>>> along other third party programs under custom and configurable prefix. >>>>> The default prefix for binary prebuilt packages is /usr/pkg, and the >>>>> Perl executable lands in /usr/pkg/bin/perl. >>>>> >>>>> This change switches "/usr/bin/perl" to "/usr/bin/env perl" as it's >>>>> the most portable solution that should work for almost everybody. >>>>> Perl's executable is detected automatically. >>>>> >>>>> This change switches -w option passed to the executable with more >>>>> modern "use warnings;" approach. There is no functional change to the >>>>> default behavior. >>>> >>>> Functionality would then depend on user $PATH. >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>>> Better? <shrug> >>> >>> Correct. >>> >>> In pkgsrc we have automatic scripts to adjust shebangs for scripting >>> languages (Perl, Python, Bash etc). But in this case I build the Linux >>> kernel out of the pkgsrc context on my NetBSD workstation. >>> >>> Exactly the same change has been accepted in qemu, currently it's >>> waiting to be merged with master. from the "-trival" branch. >>> >>> In my case I won't be enforced to keep fixing it manually every time I >>> sync with HEAD. Another point is that the Linux version of this script >>> is model and projects fork it, and we need to keep adjusting it downstream. >>> >>>> >>>> For the perl "-w", adding "use warnings;" instead of >>>> "-w" seems sensible enough. Is any build environment >>>> using a perl version below 5.6? >>>> >>> >>> 5.6 was released in 2003. >> >> I know a person using 5.8 (cough: Andrew Morton), but 5.6 >> really is quite old. >> > > It was just decided to depend on GNU Make 3.81 (released 2010). I think 3.81 was released in 2006 and 3.82 in 2010. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
