On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Hmm. In my tests by setting PERL_PATH to a bogus (non-existent) command, prior to 527ec39, git builds successfully, whereas, following 527ec39, it does not build. But, perhaps I overlooked something...(?) -- 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