[U-Boot] [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Do not hardcode perl path

[Joel A Fernandes]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Andreas Bießmann
<andreas.devel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear Joel A Fernandes,
>
> On 16.06.13 17:44, Joel A Fernandes wrote:
>> On Sunday, June 16, 2013, Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki wrote:
>>
>>> From: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com<javascript:;>
>>>>
>>>
>>> checkpatch.pl requires perl v5.10.0 to run but it
>>> doesn't require to place in /usr/bin/perl
>>> Use env to ensure that the interpreter used is the
>>> first one on environment's $PATH on system with
>>> several versions of perl installed.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com<javascript:;>
>>>>
>>> ---
>>>  tools/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tools/checkpatch.pl b/tools/checkpatch.pl
>>> index 896e2bc..8dc5b9c 100755
>>> --- a/tools/checkpatch.pl
>>> +++ b/tools/checkpatch.pl
>>> @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
>>> -#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>>> +#!/usr/bin/env perl
>>
>>
>> Would it not work to pass in the -w here?
>
> this is not portable! BSD variants of env will only take a single parameter.
>

Sure yes I noticed that, this is an acceptable approach though I've
seen some cases people solve the problem using exec.

Thanks,
Joel