From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:09:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: remove an out-of-date comment
Message-ID: <20190222150946.GC5090@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190222105658.26831-1-avarab@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:56:58AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> Remove a comment referring to a caveat that hasn't been applicable
> since 18b0fc1ce1 ("Git.pm: Kill Git.xs for now", 2006-09-23).
> 
> At the time of 8d7f586f13 ("Git.pm: Support for perl/ being built by a
> different compiler", 2006-06-25) some of the code in perl would be
> built by a C compiler, but support for that went away a few months
> later in 18b0fc1ce1 discussed above.
> 
> Since my 20d2a30f8f ("Makefile: replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple
> make rules", 2017-12-10) the perl/ directory doesn't even have its own
> build process.

I liked that commit before, but seeing that it makes this hairy corner
case go away, I like it even more. ;)

The patch itself seems obviously correct.

-Peff