From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:56:33 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in git.git
Message-ID: <7vd5bis9ha.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0608020702q2fd4ec83ga43714c15538f7ad@mail.gmail.com>

"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/2/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>>   - Git.pm by Pasky with help from Pavel Roskin and others.
>>
>>     I'd like to merge this immediately after 1.4.2, unless there
>>     still are concerns about its portability (in which case
>>     please help fixing them up before this hits the "master"
>>     branch).
>
> Completely broken on ActiveState Perl and cygwin. Generated Makefile
> contains pathnames with backslashes and the whole file has
> CRLF line endings.

Anything constructive other than "doctor it hurts when I use
activestate", so you can help improve things to be more
ActiveState friendly?

What's the standard workflow/procedure ActiveState users would
use to build and install .xs extensions?  Maybe they have their
own $(MAKE) equivalent that groks such a Makefile with
backslashed pathnames and CRLF endings?