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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-01-27 09:48:33 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-01-27 09:51:29 +0400 |
| commit | 634a5f265ad729b91266de65272e2b5a35d05b1c (patch) | |
| tree | 903db0d86a809b1f84415654369a3cf6dff5f4d5 /INSTALL | |
| parent | f15026b514a9fd7eac31313466345c9fae649afc (diff) | |
INSTALL: warn about recent Fedora breakage
Recent releases of Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package
with some core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/)
against the upstream Perl5 people's wishes. The Time::HiRes module used by
gitweb one of them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ Issues of note: - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can - live without these, use NO_PERL. + live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of + 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. - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL. If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL. |