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>
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Junio C Hamano 2012-01-26 21:48:33 -08:00
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@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ Issues of note:
- "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the - "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", features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can 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. - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL. If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.