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@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ Issues of note: export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB - By default (unless NO_PERL is provided) Git will ship various perl - scripts & libraries it needs. However, for simplicity it doesn't - use the ExtUtils::MakeMaker toolchain to decide where to place the - perl libraries. Depending on the system this can result in the perl + scripts. However, for simplicity it doesn't use the + ExtUtils::MakeMaker toolchain to decide where to place the perl + libraries. Depending on the system this can result in the perl libraries not being where you'd like them if they're expected to be used by things other than Git itself. @@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ Issues of note: Will result in e.g. perllibdir=/usr/share/perl/5.26.1 on Debian, perllibdir=/usr/share/perl5 (which we'd use by default) on CentOS. + - Unless NO_PERL is provided Git will ship various perl libraries it + needs. Distributors of Git will usually want to set + NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS if NO_PERL is not provided to use their own + copies of the CPAN modules Git needs. + - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or @@ -121,7 +126,8 @@ Issues of note: 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. + itself, e.g. Digest::MD5, File::Spec, File::Temp, Net::Domain, + Net::SMTP, and Time::HiRes. - git-imap-send needs the OpenSSL library to talk IMAP over SSL if you are using libcurl older than 7.34.0. Otherwise you can use |