The instructions for patching Configure could use a bit of an update

p5pRT commented 14 years ago

Migrated from rt.perl.org#70203 (status was 'resolved')

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p5pRT commented 14 years ago

From @obra

Created by @obra

We should clarify that any change _committed_ to Configure needs to be extracted into metaconfig. also that metaconfig lives in git\, not sourceforge.

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``` Flags: category=docs severity=low Site configuration information for perl 5.10.0: Configured by Debian Project at Thu Oct 1 22:38:45 UTC 2009. Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.24-23-server, archname=i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi uname='linux vernadsky 2.6.24-23-server #1 smp wed apr 1 22:22:14 utc 2009 i686 gnulinux ' config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i486-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.10 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.10 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio -Uusenm -DDEBUGGING=-g -Doptimize=-O2 -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.10.0 -Dd_dosuid -des' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2 -g', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.4.1', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib64 libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt libc=/lib/libc-2.10.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.10.0 gnulibc_version='2.10.1' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -L/usr/local/lib' Locally applied patches: @INC for perl 5.10.0: /home/jesse/git/bps/prophet/lib /home/jesse/git/bps/sd/lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . Environment for perl 5.10.0: HOME=/home/jesse LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE (unset) LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset) LOGDIR (unset) PATH=/home/jesse/git/bps-private/git-tools/:/home/jesse/git/bps/sd/bin/:/home/jesse/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/ec2/bin:/home/jesse/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools:/home/jesse/git/github/mine/bin:/home/jesse/git/other/git-wt/bin/:/home/jesse/git/bps-private/git-tools/:~/git/bps/sd/bin/:~/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/ec2/bin:~/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools:~/git/github/mine/bin:~/git/other/git-wt/bin/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games PERL5LIB=/home/jesse/git/bps/prophet/lib:/home/jesse/git/bps/sd/lib PERL_BADLANG (unset) SHELL=/bin/bash ```

p5pRT commented 14 years ago

From @tux

On Tue\, 03 Nov 2009 13:08:09 -0800\, Jesse (via RT) \perlbug\-followup@perl\.org wrote:

We should clarify that any change _committed_ to Configure needs to be extracted into metaconfig. also that metaconfig lives in git\, not sourceforge.

In defense ...

http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/ http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/blob/HEAD:/README is already up-to-date and mentions

$ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git metaconfig

-- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2\, 5.8.x\, 5.10.x\, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20\, 11.00\, 11.11\, 11.23\, and 11.31\, OpenSuSE 10.3\, 11.0\, and 11.1\, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

p5pRT commented 14 years ago

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

p5pRT commented 14 years ago

From @obra

On Tue 3.Nov'09 at 23:41:59 -0800\, H. Merijn Brand via RT wrote:

On Tue\, 03 Nov 2009 13:08:09 -0800\, Jesse (via RT) \perlbug\-followup@perl\.org wrote:

We should clarify that any change _committed_ to Configure needs to be extracted into metaconfig. also that metaconfig lives in git\, not sourceforge.

In defense ...

http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/ http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/blob/HEAD:/README is already up-to-date and mentions

$ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git metaconfig

Apologies! My statement was about:

# Note: this Configure script was generated automatically. Rather than # working with this copy of Configure\, you may wish to get metaconfig. # The dist package (which contains metaconfig) is available via SVN: # svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dist/trunk/dist # # # Though this script was generated by metaconfig\, it is OK to send # patches against it. It's up to the Configure pumpkin to backport # the patch to the metaunits if it is accepted. # See Porting/pumpkin.pod for more information on metaconfig.

in blead's "Configure"

p5pRT commented 14 years ago

From @tux

On Wed\, 4 Nov 2009 16:29:08 -0500\, Jesse Vincent \jesse@fsck\.com wrote:

On Tue 3.Nov'09 at 23:41:59 -0800\, H. Merijn Brand via RT wrote:

On Tue\, 03 Nov 2009 13:08:09 -0800\, Jesse (via RT) \perlbug\-followup@perl\.org wrote:

We should clarify that any change _committed_ to Configure needs to be extracted into metaconfig. also that metaconfig lives in git\, not sourceforge.

In defense ...

http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/ http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/blob/HEAD:/README is already up-to-date and mentions

$ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git metaconfig

Apologies! My statement was about:

# Note: this Configure script was generated automatically. Rather than # working with this copy of Configure\, you may wish to get metaconfig. # The dist package (which contains metaconfig) is available via SVN: # svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dist/trunk/dist # # # Though this script was generated by metaconfig\, it is OK to send # patches against it. It's up to the Configure pumpkin to backport # the patch to the metaunits if it is accepted. # See Porting/pumpkin.pod for more information on metaconfig.

in blead's "Configure"

Ah\, correct. I will address that shortly!

-- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2\, 5.8.x\, 5.10.x\, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20\, 11.00\, 11.11\, 11.23\, and 11.31\, OpenSuSE 10.3\, 11.0\, and 11.1\, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

p5pRT commented 10 years ago

From @jkeenan

On Wed Nov 04 23:51:57 2009\, hmbrand wrote:

On Wed\, 4 Nov 2009 16:29:08 -0500\, Jesse Vincent \jesse@fsck\.com wrote:

On Tue 3.Nov'09 at 23:41:59 -0800\, H. Merijn Brand via RT wrote:

On Tue\, 03 Nov 2009 13:08:09 -0800\, Jesse (via RT) \perlbug\-followup@perl\.org wrote:

We should clarify that any change _committed_ to Configure needs to be extracted into metaconfig. also that metaconfig lives in git\, not sourceforge.

In defense ...

http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/ http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/blob/HEAD:/README is already up-to-date and mentions

$ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git metaconfig

Apologies! My statement was about:

# Note: this Configure script was generated automatically. Rather than # working with this copy of Configure\, you may wish to get metaconfig. # The dist package (which contains metaconfig) is available via SVN: # svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dist/trunk/dist # # # Though this script was generated by metaconfig\, it is OK to send # patches against it. It's up to the Configure pumpkin to backport # the patch to the metaunits if it is accepted. # See Porting/pumpkin.pod for more information on metaconfig.

in blead's "Configure"

Ah\, correct. I will address that shortly!

Has this question about how/where we say changes to Configure need to be committed been addressed?

Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

p5pRT commented 10 years ago

From @tux

On Sat\, 03 Aug 2013 10:07:04 -0700\, "James E Keenan via RT" \perlbug\-followup@perl\.org wrote:

On Wed Nov 04 23:51:57 2009\, hmbrand wrote:

On Wed\, 4 Nov 2009 16:29:08 -0500\, Jesse Vincent \jesse@fsck\.com wrote:

On Tue 3.Nov'09 at 23:41:59 -0800\, H. Merijn Brand via RT wrote:

On Tue\, 03 Nov 2009 13:08:09 -0800\, Jesse (via RT) \perlbug\-followup@perl\.org wrote:

We should clarify that any change _committed_ to Configure needs to be extracted into metaconfig. also that metaconfig lives in git\, not sourceforge.

In defense ...

http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/ http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/blob/HEAD:/README is already up-to-date and mentions

$ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git metaconfig

Apologies! My statement was about:

# Note: this Configure script was generated automatically. Rather than # working with this copy of Configure\, you may wish to get metaconfig. # The dist package (which contains metaconfig) is available via SVN: # svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dist/trunk/dist # # # Though this script was generated by metaconfig\, it is OK to send # patches against it. It's up to the Configure pumpkin to backport # the patch to the metaunits if it is accepted. # See Porting/pumpkin.pod for more information on metaconfig.

in blead's "Configure"

Ah\, correct. I will address that shortly!

Has this question about how/where we say changes to Configure need to be committed been addressed?

I changed that to --8\<--- # Note: this Configure script was generated automatically. Rather than # working with this copy of Configure\, you may wish to get metaconfig. # The dist package (which contains metaconfig) is available via SVN: # svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/dist/code/trunk/dist # # Though this script was generated by metaconfig from metaunits\, it is # OK to send patches against Configure itself. It's up to the Configure # pumpkin to backport the patch to the metaunits if it is accepted. # For more information on patching Configure\, see pod/perlhack.pod # # The metaunits are also available from the public git repository: # http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/ or # $ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git metaconfig # # See Porting/pumpkin.pod for more information on metaconfig. -->8---

back in

commit 7f5516d11013641bb723aba27b6cb26c845b096c Author: H.Merijn Brand \merijn@nb09\.procura\.nl Date: Thu Nov 5 15:32:11 2009 +0100

Mention git repo in Configure's header

I think that the *middle* section is enough\, right?

Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

-- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.19 porting perl5 on HP-UX\, AIX\, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

p5pRT commented 10 years ago

From @jkeenan

On Sat Sep 07 09:18:41 2013\, hmbrand wrote:

On Sat\, 03 Aug 2013 10:07:04 -0700\, "James E Keenan via RT" \perlbug\-followup@perl\.org wrote:

On Wed Nov 04 23:51:57 2009\, hmbrand wrote:

On Wed\, 4 Nov 2009 16:29:08 -0500\, Jesse Vincent \jesse@fsck\.com wrote:

On Tue 3.Nov'09 at 23:41:59 -0800\, H. Merijn Brand via RT wrote:

On Tue\, 03 Nov 2009 13:08:09 -0800\, Jesse (via RT) \perlbug\-followup@perl\.org wrote:

We should clarify that any change _committed_ to Configure needs to be extracted into metaconfig. also that metaconfig lives in git\, not sourceforge.

In defense ...

http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/ http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/blob/HEAD:/README is already up-to-date and mentions

$ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git metaconfig

Apologies! My statement was about:

# Note: this Configure script was generated automatically. Rather than # working with this copy of Configure\, you may wish to get metaconfig. # The dist package (which contains metaconfig) is available via SVN: # svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dist/trunk/dist # # # Though this script was generated by metaconfig\, it is OK to send # patches against it. It's up to the Configure pumpkin to backport # the patch to the metaunits if it is accepted. # See Porting/pumpkin.pod for more information on metaconfig.

in blead's "Configure"

Ah\, correct. I will address that shortly!

Has this question about how/where we say changes to Configure need to be committed been addressed?

I changed that to --8\<--- # Note: this Configure script was generated automatically. Rather than # working with this copy of Configure\, you may wish to get metaconfig. # The dist package (which contains metaconfig) is available via SVN: # svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/dist/code/trunk/dist # # Though this script was generated by metaconfig from metaunits\, it is # OK to send patches against Configure itself. It's up to the Configure # pumpkin to backport the patch to the metaunits if it is accepted. # For more information on patching Configure\, see pod/perlhack.pod # # The metaunits are also available from the public git repository: # http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/ or # $ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git metaconfig # # See Porting/pumpkin.pod for more information on metaconfig. -->8---

back in

commit 7f5516d11013641bb723aba27b6cb26c845b096c Author: H.Merijn Brand \merijn@nb09\.procura\.nl Date: Thu Nov 5 15:32:11 2009 +0100
Mention git repo in Configure's header
I think that the *middle* section is enough\, right?

Yes. Thanks for the response. Marking ticket resolved.

Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

p5pRT commented 10 years ago

@jkeenan - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Perl / perl5