Re: What will happen to git.git in the near future

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 1, 2006, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0610012208410.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610011256580.3952@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > Just rm perl/{Git.{bs,c},Makefile} and remake.
> 
> Now this works.
> 
> So somebody tell me why we even invoke that Makefile that shouldn't be 
> there?

The problem is that the Makefile does not realize that Git.xs no longer is there. Neither does the code which recreates the Makefile.

You will notice that there is a new generated perl/Makefile, which no longer tries to compile Git.xs, Git.bs or Git.c

When there is a Git.c, "perl Makefile.PL" will do the wrong thing, namely it expects that you created Git.c by hand, and wants to compile it. If there is a Git.bs, it thinks you want Git.c created.

Sort of automake for Perl.

Ciao, Dscho