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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