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.
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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