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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html