From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Test t9500 fails if Time::HiRes is missing
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:48:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8vkt1yry.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX4cjcY5d3mPJAV+rbSTqCEUOrF=_dd3ny_jSM++G-Bg1Q@mail.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:42:02 +0100")
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> 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.
-- >8 --
Subject: INSTALL: warn about recent Fedora breakage
Recent releases of Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package
with some core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/)
against the upstream Perl5 people's wishes. The Time::HiRes module used by
gitweb one of them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
* 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.
- "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-27 5:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-23 4:50 Test t9500 fails if Time::HiRes is missing Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-01-23 5:39 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-01-23 9:42 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-01-27 5:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-01-27 9:32 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-01-27 9:18 ` Jakub Narębski
2012-01-27 10:15 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
2012-01-27 10:59 ` Jakub Narębski
2012-01-27 17:45 ` [PATCH] Revert "gitweb: Time::HiRes is in core for Perl 5.8" Jakub Narebski
2012-01-27 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-28 17:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-01-29 2:29 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-01-29 2:21 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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