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

[email protected] ("Craig A. Berry")
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters,perl.vmsperl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 31, 2008, at 11:38 AM, demerphq wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

Processing the .patch file in configure.com should not be a big deal.   
We already process it the old way when it just had the Perforce change  
number in it, so we just need to update that to do what  
make_patchnum.sh does.  Running git to generate lib/Config_git.pl is  
not possible at this point since there is as yet no git on VMS, so  
those parts of make_patchnum.sh cannot currently be translated.

Since there is also no generally available rsync on VMS, the only  
practical way to stay current with blead is to generate your own  
snapshot on a system that does have rsync and/or git.  If we haven't  
already done so, it would be nice to document the recommended  
procedure for generating a snapshot.  I assume it involves running  
make_patchnum.sh followed but some incantation of git --archive.


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