From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:16:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] Introduce Git.pm (v4)
Message-ID: <20060624111657.GR21864@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vu06bymtr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:33:52AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> The reason it failed?  Well, it could not find Git.pm because
> the changes to fmt-merge-msg was done for distros not for people
> who install under their home directories.

I don't understand what are you trying to say here...

> Now, I am quite unhappy about the situation (and it is not your
> fault).  "git pull" is something almost everybody uses, and
> having the series means they would need to make sure whereever
> Git.pm is installed is on their PERL5LIB as things currently
> stand.

...because well, they do:

$(patsubst %.perl,%,$(SCRIPT_PERL)) : % : %.perl
	rm -f $@ $@+
	sed -e '1s|#!.*perl\(.*\)|#!$(PERL_PATH_SQ)\1 -I'"$$(make -s -C perl instlibdir)"'|' \
	    -e 's/@@GIT_VERSION@@/$(GIT_VERSION)/g' \
	    $@.perl >$@+
	chmod +x $@+
	mv $@+ $@

(This is also why I was a bit confused by your make test patch - it does
not "fix" anything per se since no tests directly use Git.pm.)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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