Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: enforce sane perl version

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:10:13 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 13:06 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.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: http://www.cpan.org/src/.  Versions of perl
> > this old are at _best_ quite untested.  At worst, they are crusty
> > and known to be completely broken.
> > 
> > If folks have a system _that_ old, then we should have mercy on
> > them and give them a half-decent error message rather than fail
> > with nutty error messages.
> > 
> > This patch enforces that checkpatch.pl is run with perl 5.10,
> > which was end-of-lifed in 2009.  The new --ignore-perl-version
> > command-line switch will let folks override this if they want.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> 
> 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.