Before 96a8704c makedepend.SH used shell quote syntax that modern

[perl5.git] / pod / perlrepository.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlrepository.pod b/pod/perlrepository.pod
index 65a9bef..731735d 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrepository.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrepository.pod
@@ -645,6 +645,14 @@ testcase:
   % cat ~/run
   #!/bin/sh
   git clean -dxf
   % cat ~/run
   #!/bin/sh
   git clean -dxf

+
+  # If you get './makedepend: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted
+  # string' when bisecting versions of perl older than 5.9.5 this hack
+  # will work around the bug in makedepend.SH which was fixed in
+  # version 96a8704c. Make sure to comment out `git co makedepend.SH'
+  # below too.
+  git show blead:makedepend.SH > makedepend.SH
+

   # If you can use ccache, add -Dcc=ccache\ gcc -Dld=gcc to the Configure line
   # if Encode is not needed for the test, you can speed up the bisect by
   # excluding it from the runs with -Dnoextensions=Encode
   # If you can use ccache, add -Dcc=ccache\ gcc -Dld=gcc to the Configure line
   # if Encode is not needed for the test, you can speed up the bisect by
   # excluding it from the runs with -Dnoextensions=Encode


@@ -658,6 +666,7 @@ testcase:
   ./perl -Ilib ~/testcase.pl
   ret=$?
   [ $ret -gt 127 ] && ret=127
   ./perl -Ilib ~/testcase.pl
   ret=$?
   [ $ret -gt 127 ] && ret=127

+  # git co makedepend.SH

   git clean -dxf
   exit $ret
 
   git clean -dxf
   exit $ret