From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:37:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100813223725.GA2153@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim9aNtFdwM5m-FB_LWX96es2DR_9mU3rGcV4dME@mail.gmail.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> This is just an interesting datapoint, but Git's test suite currently
> crashes and burns if you don't have a perl in your $PATH, no matter if
> you've compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease or not.
Yes, I think this was known. Development machines (which is where
people tend to run tests most) tend to have perl but some weird
production machines did not.
> I have a WIP patch series to tackle this issue:
>
> http://github.com/avar/git/compare/git:pu...in-progress-dont-depend-on-perl
>
> It adds a PERL dependency to things
Reasonable.
> and changes perl to
> "$PERL_PATH".
Is that necessary? As you mentioned before, a lot of uses of perl are
for run-of-the-mill one-liners and do not care much which version they
get.
On the other hand, even if it is not necessary, it might still be a
good idea to just stick to one perl version for simplicity.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-13 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-13 21:25 Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-13 22:37 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-08-13 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-13 22:56 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-13 23:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-13 23:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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