Re: Test t9500 fails if Time::HiRes is missing

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 27, 2012, 09:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CACBZZX5Y5u=8U4s2aohr6wERuybCMRTamQK7v=JRUOr+ZpJjxQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8vkt1yry.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 06:48, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This doesn't actually fix the issue, it only sweeps it under the rug
>> by making the tests pass, gitweb will still fail to compile on Red
>> Hat once installed.
>
> In the short term for 1.7.9, let's at least warn users about this issue.
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: INSTALL: warn about recent Fedora breakage
>
> Recent releases of Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package
> with some core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/)
> against the upstream Perl5 people's wishes. The Time::HiRes module used by
> gitweb one of them.

Since I wrote that E-Mail I learned what RedHat was doing, I think that's a far better option. They're splitting up the perl core into multiple packages, and anyone who has issues with this on RedHat can trivially just install those packages. So we should just note it in the INSTALL file as a platform-specific issue and leave it at that.

We *could* deal with this in our code, but I don't think dealing with every vendor's slightly different perl version is a viable strategy in the long run.