Otherwise it tries to tie it to a scalar and complains about missing
method. Dunno why, may be ActiveState brokenness again.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
---
perl/Git.pm | 8 +++++++-
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
From 2b8a716c644c3a4ca85446007daee0e792703822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:16:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Force Activestate Perl to tie git command pipe handle to a handle class
Otherwise it tries to tie it to a scalar and complains about missing
method. Dunno why, may be ActiveState brokenness again.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
---
perl/Git.pm | 8 +++++++-
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index 58414e3..2f6b59a 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -742,7 +742,13 @@ sub _command_common_pipe {
# warn 'ignoring STDERR option - running w/ ActiveState';
$direction eq '-|' or
die 'input pipe for ActiveState not implemented';
- tie ($fh, 'Git::activestate_pipe', $cmd, @args);
+ # the strange construction with *ACPIPE is just to
+ # explain the tie below that we want to bind to
+ # a handle class, not scalar. It is not known if
+ # it is something specific to ActiveState Perl or
+ # just a Perl quirk.
+ tie (*ACPIPE, 'Git::activestate_pipe', $cmd, @args);
+ $fh = *ACPIPE;
} else {
my $pid = open($fh, $direction);
--
1.5.0.rc2.g3f1a