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Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 2, 2006, 22:09 UTC
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<20060302220930.GE6183@steel.home>
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<20060302165510.GB18929@spearce.org>
Shawn Pearce, Thu, Mar 02, 2006 17:55:10 +0100:
> Maybe I missed this but why are people using the native Windows
> ActiveState Perl with GIT+Cygwin when Cygwin has a Cygwin-ized Perl
> installation available?

because the people _can't_ use cygwin's perl. There are a lot of reasons mainly: administrative, perl script incompatibilities and cygwin.dll incompatibilities (if you use perl from cygwin, it'll need the correct cygwin.dll. And if a build process uses cygwin tools from, for example, QNX Momentics it often comes to clashes).

> I've been using the Cygwin Perl with GIT without any problems
> whatsoever.  Including the open(I, "-|")... exec(@argv) code that
> doesn't work correctly in ActiveState and started this whole thread.
Unfortunately...
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Message 3 of 10 in “Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6”
  1. Christopher FaylorMar 2, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceMar 2, 2006
  3. Alex RiesenMar 2, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsMar 2, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsMar 3, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsMar 3, 2006
  9. Christopher FaylorMar 3, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinMar 2, 2006

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