From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:59:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Move initialization of Git::SVN variables into Git::SVN.
Message-ID: <20120727205925.GA14046@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <50130062.7090901@pobox.com>

Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2012.7.27 1:07 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
> > While Makefile.PL now finds .pm files on its own, it does not
> > detect new files after it generates perl/perl.mak.
> 
> Are you saying this doesn't work?
> 
> perl Makefile.PL
> make -f perl.mak
> touch Git/Foo.pm
> perl Makefile.PL
> make -f perl.mak

This works.

> or this?
> 
> perl Makefile.PL
> make -f perl.mak
> touch Git/Foo.pm
> make -f perl.mak
> 
> The former should work.  The latter is a MakeMaker limitation.  Makefile.PL
> hard codes the list of .pm files into the Makefile.

Yup, Junio's patch works around the MM limitation so the latter works.