Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: squelch harmless variable scoping errors

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:05:29 +0200

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Mark A Rada wrote:

> I fiddled around a bit and this solution seems to work, but is a bit  
> odd, as the method is declared obsolete in the Perl documentation
> (v5.8.8). 
> 
> What do you think?

Below there is alternate solution (from asking on #perl channel on
FreeNode).

> --->8---
> This will use the 'vars' method of declaring global variables instead
> of the 'our' method.
> 
> Though 'vars' has been obsoleted, it has the advantage of pre-declaring
> global symbols; this ensures that those symbols will be available to
> routines loaded later, whereas 'our' does not seem to do this.
> 
> The result is that when using mod_perl you will no longer get any
> warnings printed to your error_log.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rada <[email-masked]>
> ---
> gitweb/gitweb.perl |    8 +++++---
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index 37120a3..0544aa2 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -57,12 +57,14 @@ if ($path_info) {
> our $GIT = "++GIT_BINDIR++/git";
> 
> # absolute fs-path which will be prepended to the project path
> -#our $projectroot = "/pub/scm";
> -our $projectroot = "++GITWEB_PROJECTROOT++";
> +use vars qw($projectroot);
> +#$projectroot = "/pub/scm";
> +$projectroot = "++GITWEB_PROJECTROOT++";
> 
> # fs traversing limit for getting project list
> # the number is relative to the projectroot
> -our $project_maxdepth = "++GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH++";
> +use vars qw($project_maxdepth);
> +$project_maxdepth = "++GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH++";
> 
> # target of the home link on top of all pages
> our $home_link = $my_uri || "/";
> -- 
> 1.6.4

Alternate solution could be (please test that it works as intended),
which is a bit simpler, and do not use obsolete 'use vars' pragma,
which is not BLOCK-scoped like other pragmas like 'use strict'.

diff --git i/gitweb/gitweb.perl w/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index ab0cad2..c0fa53c 100755
--- i/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ w/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -2308,6 +2305,7 @@ sub git_get_projects_list {
 			follow_skip => 2, # ignore duplicates
 			dangling_symlinks => 0, # ignore dangling symlinks, silently
 			wanted => sub {
+				our ($project_maxdepth, $projectroot);
 				# skip project-list toplevel, if we get it.
 				return if (m!^[/.]$!);
 				# only directories can be git repositories

-- 
Jakub Narebski

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