From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Schiele Subject: [PATCH] mention required Perl version in INSTALL Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:13:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20080830171312.GE7185@schiele.dyndns.org> Reply-To: Robert Schiele Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 30 19:14:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZU1o-0002Jr-VK for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:14:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752768AbYH3RNT (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:13:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752710AbYH3RNS (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:13:18 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:54655 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751646AbYH3RNR (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:13:17 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so824024fgg.17 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:13:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:to:cc:subject :message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:user-agent :from:reply-to; bh=h/khIGSwHd7QVx81GI1mfSKyNOaP+I7GQoAQKJW0GXM=; b=RKJifhlslhCGzQLD4n3xUnkLzqpaheOcAY2IVJEaPRjYFSS6oUUIcGfDcr66WMAX1/ KiX/EZfGgU5uQOgi04owXzTzf3U9VYt0C3IKRNUJsEhMXAgcrY3Sx68bZ+iqi0SKboQH 1LbY9OEOppOqr1qle5bvkmYguFU0my9fZCQtI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:to:cc:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:user-agent:from:reply-to; b=t6k27fLVeETQ6421bpXKERaUsOHSFMEjrDzbVpNC3YJA4tHxwpJ+F6CwQnh2H+Q/oB 1hE4vomPYbqY4KA/lvY4jV4vRdgZ/0TM0TicwRcWMViBCzfehauCLPIFZah6Lsd6CG5+ UpToCpMqg2Zku0g/+JtCN68YD+zwcXRsmHTGg= Received: by 10.86.77.5 with SMTP id z5mr3123279fga.10.1220116395780; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sigkill.schiele.dyndns.org ( [91.18.78.90]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm4289938fge.8.2008.08.30.10.13.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:13:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sigkill.schiele.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A82F817BD2; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:13:12 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: We use syntax in some places that is only supported on Perl 5.8 or later. One example for this is the list form of the open command in combination with pipes in git-add--interactive.perl: open($fh, '-|', @_) or die; Signed-off-by: Robert Schiele --- INSTALL | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 2bae53f..0495fe5 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ Issues of note: - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net - - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of - the bare-bones Porcelainish scripts. + - "perl" 5.8 or later and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use + most of the bare-bones Porcelainish scripts. - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules, but depending on your specific installation, you may not -- 1.5.4.5