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

[email protected] (John Malmberg)
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters,perl.vmsperl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John Malmberg wrote:
> Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Here is a first pass at a make_patchnum.com.

Ignore that file, the arguments need extra quoting.

New file will be coming next year.

-John
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