From 634a5f265ad729b91266de65272e2b5a35d05b1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:48:33 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- INSTALL | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 8120641a51..6fa83fe2b8 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -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.