Re: Building GIT on older systems.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 29, 2012, 21:00 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAFqtsHd=b=Ey8j1zTCC4-fut7rno3daQ2Q3HMs3k2SHFvE4dSQ@mail.gmail.com>

Tim Schumacher <schumact@gmail.com> writes:

> A couple questions I have so far:
> (1)  how can I make make output the actual command it is executing so
> I can try to debug things more quickly?

make V=1

> (2)  how can I configure the Makefile to automatically set -ldl as
> well as the NO_NSEC flag?

config.mak

> (3)  My perl -v output: This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux.  Is
> this sufficient?

I think our floor is set at somewhere around 5.8.3, but at the same time, most of the essential parts of the system such as "git fetch" and "git checkout", should be usable without any version of Perl. An environment for actual development of your software may want to use things such as "add -i" that require Perl, though.