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

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
---

 * Hopefully, this may resolve itself over time.

 INSTALL |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 8120641..6fa83fe 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ Issues of note:
 	- "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
 	  features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
 	  interacting with svn repositories with "git svn").  If you can
-	  live without these, use NO_PERL.
+	  live without these, use NO_PERL.  Note that recent releases of
+	  Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some
+	  core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/),
+	  so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl
+	  itself, e.g. Time::HiRes.
 
 	- "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
 	  If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.

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