Re: Revised git related information in -v/-V output (and %Config)

2008/12/31 John Malmberg <[email protected]>:
> Ben Morrow wrote:
>>
>> Quoth [email protected] (demerphq):
>>>
>>>   The net result of this patch is to make available via Config.pm and
>>> -v/-V the
>>>   details about the git version info we have available for the build.
>>> When built within
>>>   a git repository git is queried directly.
>>
>> It used to be possible to rsync, Configure, and then 'make perl' or
>> 'make miniperl' to just build a binary without building the extensions.
>> When working in a git checkout, this no longer works as 'make_patchnum'
>> is a separate target called from 'all', so 'make perl' fails because it
>> can't find .patchnum. Would it be straightforward to fix this?
>
> make_patchnum.sh is missing the line:
>
> new_patchnum="describe: $describe" under the section [ -s ".patch" ].

Ill take that care of that, if I'm not beaten to it, asap, next year
at the latest. :-)

> Even with that change, the script still will not run under VMS, apparently
> due to limitations in the GNV bash package.
>
> And many of the people building perl would not have the GNV bash package, so
> the equivalent logic will need to be added to configure.com.

Will that be hard? I am willing to support as much as I can.

cheers,
Yves


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