From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:28:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] git-remote-mediawiki: use Git's Makefile to build the script
Message-ID: <7vhaln7wkg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1360174292-14793-5-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> The configuration of the install directory is not reused from the
> toplevel Makefile: we assume Git is already built, hence just call
> "git --exec-path". This avoids too much surgery in the toplevel Makefile.
>
> git-remote-mediawiki.perl can now "use Git;".
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
> ---

Continuing to the comment on 3/4, I wonder if it would be a lot
simpler and more maintainable if you replaced 1/4 to 3/4 with a
smaller patch to the top-level Makefile to teach it to munge
arbitrary path/to/foo.perl to path/to/foo the same way as we do to
other path/tool.perl that are known to the top-level Makefile
(similarly, another target to install the resulting path/to/foo at
an arbitrary place).  Then do something like

	all::
		$(MAKE) -C ../.. \
			PERL_SCRIPT=contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl \
                        build-perl-script
	install::
		$(MAKE) -C ../.. \
			PERL_SCRIPT=contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl \
                        install-perl-script

in this step.