2009/1/1 Craig A. Berry <craigbe...@mac.com>: > > 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 -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
