From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:37:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NO_PERL support
Message-ID: <20090403183738.GA15926@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200904031954.57584.j6t@kdbg.org>

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 07:54:57PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> If you base the patch on 'master', you can add this line to test-lib.sh
> 
> test -z "$NO_PERL" && test_set_prereq PERL

Thanks, I'm working up a patch using this now.

> [But actually, if I read you patch correctly, NO_PERL will be set in 
> t/Makefile only if one runs 'make test' from the main directory. You should 
> invent some method to detect missing perl (or that NO_PERL was set) if 'make' 
> is run directly from t/.]

Yes, it should go into GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS which gets sourced by
test-lib.sh (and then it not only works with "make test" from "t/", but
also with "sh t????-whatever.sh".

-Peff