From: Alex Riesen Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:09:56 GMT Subject: Re: What's in git.git Message-ID: <81b0412b0608030109g6f49113ep5cf577475117469b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vd5bis9ha.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On 8/3/06, Junio C Hamano 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? Nothing. If I had something, I'd post it. > 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? I don't know. It's a bit more than backslashes and CRLF. The pathnames must be _completely_ converted from windows to cygwin. Cygwin even provides an utility for that (cygpath). Besides, there still is that stupid case-sensitivity problem.