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

2009/1/1 Craig A. Berry <[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.

So ill assume it shouldn't be too difficult. :-)

>  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.

Yes i expected that. Its designed to work that way.

> 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.

If its useful I will take that onto myself. Meaning i will put some
effort into making .tar.gz snapshots available for you. Please let me
know what else i can do to make things easier for the VMS people.

I will also look into producting documentation how to do so.

Yves


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