From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: Find .pm files automatically (was Re: Fix git-svn tests for SVN 1.7.5.) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:14:43 -0500 Message-ID: <20120718021442.GA10180@burratino> References: <5004B772.3090806@pobox.com> <20120717174446.GA14244@burratino> <5005EFC5.8060105@pobox.com> <20120718000120.GG25325@burratino> <50061435.1090900@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, robbat2@gentoo.org, Eric Wong , Ben Walton To: Michael G Schwern X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 18 04:14:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SrJmz-0004Mg-G3 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:14:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751479Ab2GRCOx (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:14:53 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:49644 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750937Ab2GRCOv (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:14:51 -0400 Received: by gglu4 with SMTP id u4so1108595ggl.19 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:14:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=6cyu+1gSRaeCVDUW8ZhVQEI35MmGycev0H399LtrJsc=; b=aCD3JobD3JxY3nHsFZ6+k9WgLA5SN9IdnNL5YZ0PYfj6ETF0Zono7DGjkz3LyYzq1T WdmdLtMoz1YSbU7Gjvw6xQCbeYct/MQ/tTR5DHfXO8lP7C4VneRnT6lf3nUUSRfsDWM5 p1s8/xS6jPMpG+ZqgKUtfUHAVVFadtYD0P2MBrShztLnOEbVA8A6Rrww7wvc827QFuxN 8+YjOWG1nU5Ks6dwvYNK4hU9+yziqgo7aAF8v+QDdH6NhikJzEBjOFR3ouezhrIA7tGa QglGMWJAtqIJhhyxrA6F1rvO9BCGQbRsyO4UAWm0gq0teavXdnleqFbpr6dft2EUIg36 T0PQ== Received: by 10.50.173.69 with SMTP id bi5mr583086igc.38.1342577691015; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from burratino (cl-1372.chi-02.us.sixxs.net. [2001:4978:f:55b::2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id qo3sm27297681igc.8.2012.07.17.19.14.49 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50061435.1090900@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thanks for the reply. Quick clarifications: Michael G Schwern wrote: > The man page is now man3/bundles::Error::Error.3 which is equally as incorrect > as man3/private-Error.3. It is possible to correct that so it's man3/Error.3, > but that's going to require some effort. Basically its in the same boat as > PM. Once you have to change one you have to change them all. > > Why do install scripts have specific code to look for that man page? To delete it. :) [...] > Ideally, that second Makefile would go away. Parallel build systems are extra > work and generate bugs. Agreed --- I'd love to see the NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER option go away. > The log suggests it might have something to do with people wanting to build > with an ActiveState Perl on Cygwin or something? MakeMaker builds different > Makefiles depending on the OS, so it may be as simple as telling Makefile.PL > what flavor of make you're using. I think the main user is the ordinary Git for Windows build (which uses perl 5.8.8, from mingw or msys I imagine). If you have the Windows expertise to help them or know someone who could, I'm sure they'd be happy to switch their git build to use MakeMaker. Website: http://msysgit.github.com/ Thanks, Jonathan