Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Nevertheless, there's still the problem, due to 527ec39 >>> (generate-cmdlist: parse common group commands, 2015-05-21), that git >>> doesn't build at all anymore when Perl is unavailable. >> >> I do not think that is anything new. We always have assumed "some" >> version of Perl available in order to run t/ scripts. > > True, but prior to 527ec39, without Perl available, git itself could > at least be built and used (with some commands unavailable), even if > it couldn't be fully tested. As of 527ec39, however, git won't even > build because common-cmds.h can't be generated. I wouldn't bother digging in the history myself, but I am reasonably sure that the current genereate-common-cmds is not the sole instance that we relied on Perl to build (not test) in the past, and that is another reason why I do not think this is anything new. -- 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