Re: Revised git related information in -v/-V output (and %Config)
[email protected] (John Malmberg)
| Newsgroups | perl.perl5.porters,perl.vmsperl |
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| 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 [email protected] Personal Opinion Only