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

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" ].

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.

-John
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