2008/12/31 John Malmberg <wb8...@gmail.com>: > Ben Morrow wrote: >> >> Quoth demer...@gmail.com (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" ].
Ill take that care of that, if I'm not beaten to it, asap, next year at the latest. :-) > 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. Will that be hard? I am willing to support as much as I can. cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
