Re: [Nasm-devel] NASM 2.12.03rc1

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

On October 6, 2016 9:05:29 AM PDT, anonymous coward <nas...@us...> wrote:
>>>do the dependencies actually change frequently enough
>>>to warrant this overly complicated auto generation?
>>
>> Yes, they do... we had tons of problems with out of date
>dependencies.
>
>well... so far this auto-gen mechanism doesn't seem to fare any
>better...
>
>(my question was more along the lines of "how often does that structure
>of the source tree change nowadays, after the significant re-org?")
>
>fwiw, I also tried a build under Windows, but got this:
>
>[same steps as before, up until...]
>
>$ make aldeps
>perl -I./perllib -I. ./x86/insns.pl -b \
>        ./x86/insns.dat x86/insnsb.c
>Too many arguments for open at ./x86/insns.pl line 198, near "$oname)"
>Too many arguments for open at ./x86/insns.pl line 239, near "$oname)"
>Too many arguments for open at ./x86/insns.pl line 267, near "$oname)"
>Too many arguments for open at ./x86/insns.pl line 349, near "$oname)"
>Too many arguments for open at ./x86/insns.pl line 380, near "$oname)"
>Execution of ./x86/insns.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
>make: *** [x86/insnsb.c] Error 255
>
>happens to be a perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 03)
>
>as for next steps, can you give a build-after-fresh-git-fetch a try on
>your
>end, to see if it works for you?

Note that you don't need to run make alldeps yourself, but it should still work.

Perl 5.0 is *ancient*.  I suspect that there are Perl 5.8+ constructs that have made it into scripts by now, especially the 3-operand open().
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