From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:11:08 GMT Subject: Re: What will happen to git.git in the near future Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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