On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 13:02 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:With my laptop being broken I have to work on a server provided by my
employer and I am preparing some patches for submission. So I intended
to run checkpatch, but I get the following message after which the
script bails out:
$ git format-patch -1 --stdout | scripts/checkpatch.pl -
Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by<-- HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++<--
HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 347.
The server runs RHEL5
2.6.18-308.20.1.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
Perl interpreter:
$ /usr/bin/perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
My repository is based on wireless-testing repo.
Did a quick search on LKML, but not finding anything like this. Any help
would be appreciated here.
Sorry, I don't have perl 5.8.8, it's pretty old.
Perhaps this explains it:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=971814 (question)
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=971883 (explanation)
Perhaps you could test this patch?
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index b28cc38..fb53845 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ our $Typecast = qr{\s*(\(\s*$NonptrType\s*\)){0,1}\s*};
# requires at least perl version v5.10.0