Re: [PATCH 04/17] Makefile: a dry-run can error out if no perl. Document the issue

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"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes:

> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I am not sure what this patch is trying to achieve.
>
> It was probably a bit of 'don't mess with working code', given that
> I'd used the NO_PERL solution, rather 'document the issue'....

Then this part applies, I think.

>> If you are not touching what this Makefile actually does, then I
>> would imagine that you are running the "buildsystems code" that
>> actually drives 'make -n' with some "available solution" (perhaps
>> you are running 'make -n NO_PERL=NoThanks' or something like that)?
>> Then instead of a command like this that nobody would read in this
>> file, the same command can instead go there to explain what the
>> "workaround" (e.g. unusual-looking 'make -n NO_PERL=NoThanks') is
>> doing?

Thanks.
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