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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: remove an out-of-date comment
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:09:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190222150946.GC5090@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190222105658.26831-1-avarab@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:56:58AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> Remove a comment referring to a caveat that hasn't been applicable
> since 18b0fc1ce1 ("Git.pm: Kill Git.xs for now", 2006-09-23).
> 
> At the time of 8d7f586f13 ("Git.pm: Support for perl/ being built by a
> different compiler", 2006-06-25) some of the code in perl would be
> built by a C compiler, but support for that went away a few months
> later in 18b0fc1ce1 discussed above.
> 
> Since my 20d2a30f8f ("Makefile: replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple
> make rules", 2017-12-10) the perl/ directory doesn't even have its own
> build process.

I liked that commit before, but seeing that it makes this hairy corner
case go away, I like it even more. ;)

The patch itself seems obviously correct.

-Peff

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-22 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-22 10:56 [PATCH] Makefile: remove an out-of-date comment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-22 14:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Makefile: allow for combining DEVELOPER= and CFLAGS="..." Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-22 15:16   ` Jeff King
2019-02-22 21:59     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-23 13:22       ` Jeff King
2019-02-22 14:41 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] Makefile: remove an out-of-date comment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-22 14:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] Makefile: move "strip" assignment down from flags Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-22 15:18   ` Jeff King
2019-02-22 21:58     ` Ramsay Jones
2019-02-23 13:23       ` Jeff King
2019-02-22 14:41 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] Makefile: add/remove comments at top and tweak whitespace Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-22 14:41 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] Makefile: Move *_LIBS assignment into its own section Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-22 15:21   ` Jeff King
2019-02-22 15:49   ` Eric Sunshine
2019-02-22 14:41 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] Makefile: move the setting of *FLAGS closer to "include" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-22 23:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-22 14:41 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] Makefile: allow for combining DEVELOPER=1 and CFLAGS="..." Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-22 15:29   ` Jeff King
2019-02-22 23:23   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-22 15:09 ` Jeff King [this message]

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