From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:45:07 -0700 Message-ID: <7v4oeyjfnw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git Mailing List To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 14 00:45:29 2010 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 1Ok30B-0003of-Kl for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:45:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755703Ab0HMWpP convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:45:15 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:57270 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755621Ab0HMWpO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:45:14 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847A5CD1D2; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:45:13 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=x9zZAeICv1oZ BCRFiVvD3oh8Ymk=; b=plxb8XQhEntgJZz9TytUQLuemin7fTuRW+WUfvtCf22S 0xFsteBoyFzGoLBrMb3jo90VQQBL8iQBp4pewtVSWgStydVDWXD7dweXOPSP31ps nZ5RDUzpboozf4szaqg4joVuIM530UrHxhg+nh+OWCQ2SKP0QYiSczN6FAmiSLo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=O1fqFJ tdxGuy7kR32f+NMQ5Lw/EJZTAaWptPH3aNb7kaSU+5NIak03G0HqRU9wxrVOi936 TSgcufsoME3Xk+1NvxECXY34tpL46fi2C9wJQ/MsGvuTgTrd4KKdAcEsHlKlKDP9 0ovejqbLTPgFWLEZkfdewgomnC0Gw2rdmmP5o= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63397CD1D1; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:45:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.252.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C06FCCD1D0; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:45:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?B?IsOGdmFyIEFybmZqw7Zyw7A=?= Bjarmason"'s message of "Fri\, 13 Aug 2010 21\:25\:10 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6E354D96-A72C-11DF-8B3B-9056EE7EF46B-77302942!a-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 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 i= f > you've compiled with NO_PERL=3DYesPlease or not. This has been the ca= se > since at least 2006, or v1.3.0-rc1~13^2~34. I'd suggest you not to go overboard on this. NO_PERL=3DYesPlease is primarily about the deployment environment. The person who is building and packaging git may have perl on her development box.