From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Test t9500 fails if Time::HiRes is missing Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:48:33 -0800 Message-ID: <7v8vkt1yry.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Hallvard Breien Furuseth , git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 27 06:48:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rqefw-0004AH-S4 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:48:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754670Ab2A0Fsg convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:48:36 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:49162 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753457Ab2A0Fsf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:48:35 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5547146D8; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:48:35 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=KGB/FtCCL861 JUjLcTKrE9AmWoc=; b=Dm2d2WcWgGc6PMHFuoeW16tPT7/R3z0cYfI+HJndv8wC l3jeZG6Or5bfLfaGRyZElVNQalcsAQ61c6jdtWCidOPOKxkSAD/JpEmE5VKhPyg2 KI5aVSXMR7BgF/QTyFJWkuMuvdZWN/rW93CACzw4MX96pzP4ZiLFWSKlEjpOSJg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=cLhrsQ 2VvSvuQf0GYutGiFNQ8mK+TQ7UkvNAELL84i+MboQCeypXbIhS7DjgOL6hkVzmhm M/9GcdReFq84jwdbmIf+Ey+9BPos8np02D/vNoKn+zkxn7TPkNqzBsucBfGWUddu ikA8qyS2K/YlFfQXOm48kIW/UEWoskCyXgq0s= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1FE46D7; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:48:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D323D46D6; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:48:34 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?B?IsOGdmFyIEFybmZqw7Zyw7A=?= Bjarmason"'s message of "Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:42:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8D388D68-48AA-11E1-AE7A-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason writes: > This doesn't actually fix the issue, it only sweeps it under the rug > by making the tests pass, gitweb will still fail to compile on Red > Hat once installed. In the short term for 1.7.9, let's at least warn users about this issue= =2E -- >8 -- Subject: INSTALL: warn about recent Fedora breakage Recent releases of Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary packa= ge with some core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/47723= 4/) against the upstream Perl5 people's wishes. The Time::HiRes module used= by gitweb one of them. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- * Hopefully, this may resolve itself over time. INSTALL | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 8120641..6fa83fe 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ Issues of note: - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can - live without these, use NO_PERL. + live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of + Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some + core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/), + so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl + itself, e.g. Time::HiRes. =20 - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL. If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.