# [PATCH] Fix spurious compile error

1 messages from 2007-01-16 to 2007-01-16. Participants: Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6406

## Johannes Schindelin, 2007-01-16 21:10

Subject: [PATCH] Fix spurious compile error
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701162210060.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0701162210060.22628%40wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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>From time to time, I would get this error:

[...]
sed: -e expression #8, char 41: Unterminated `s' command
make: *** [git-add--interactive] Error 1

Turns out that the function WriteMakefile() called in Makefile.PL
outputs the message "Writing perl.mak for Git" to stdout! Thus,
the output of "make -C perl -s --no-print-directory instlibdir"
would be prefixed by that message whenever Makefile.PL was newer
than perl.mak.

This is fixed by redirecting stdout to stderr in Makefile.PL.

Signed-off-by: Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 perl/Makefile.PL |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/perl/Makefile.PL b/perl/Makefile.PL
index 4168775..9b117fd 100644
--- a/perl/Makefile.PL
+++ b/perl/Makefile.PL
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ if ($@) {
 my %extra;
 $extra{DESTDIR} = $ENV{DESTDIR} if $ENV{DESTDIR};
 
+# redirect stdout, otherwise the message "Writing perl.mak for Git"
+# disrupts the output for the target 'instlibdir'
+open STDOUT, ">&STDERR";
+
 WriteMakefile(
 	NAME            => 'Git',
 	VERSION_FROM    => 'Git.pm',
-- 
1.3.3.g79f3

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