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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2012-03-19 13:27:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2012-03-19 21:54:41 +0100 |
| commit | 6d4be29ed416c7245eb4f21c700d825aca9a4e93 (patch) | |
| tree | f7cd3a3890097b5ccac89f87147c6f055cbb78ea /pod | |
| parent | c34d842973a74ded7d9fae683eaa8645afa9d6bb (diff) | |
| download | perl-6d4be29ed416c7245eb4f21c700d825aca9a4e93.tar.gz | |
Move the example git bisect shell script from perlgit.pod to Porting/
This both avoids cluttering the flow of manpage with auxiliary data, and
saves the user from having to extract the script from within the pod file.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlgit.pod | 33 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlgit.pod b/pod/perlgit.pod index ee524f991e..e8137191bc 100644 --- a/pod/perlgit.pod +++ b/pod/perlgit.pod @@ -391,35 +391,10 @@ the history, which commit should be blamed for introducing a given bug. Suppose that we have a script F<~/testcase.pl> that exits with C<0> when some behaviour is correct, and with C<1> when it's faulty. You need an helper script that automates building C<perl> and running the -testcase: - - % 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 checkout 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 - sh Configure -des -Dusedevel -Doptimize="-g" - test -f config.sh || exit 125 - # Correct makefile for newer GNU gcc - perl -ni -we 'print unless /<(?:built-in|command)/' makefile x2p/makefile - # if you just need miniperl, replace test_prep with miniperl - make test_prep - [ -x ./perl ] || exit 125 - ./perl -Ilib ~/testcase.pl - ret=$? - [ $ret -gt 127 ] && ret=127 - # git checkout makedepend.SH - git clean -dxf - exit $ret +testcase. For an example script, see F<Porting/bisect-example.sh>, which +you should copy B<outside> of the repository as the bisect process will +reset the state to a clean checkout as it runs. The instructions below assume +that you copied it as F<~/run> and then edited as appropriate. This script may return C<125> to indicate that the corresponding commit should be skipped. Otherwise, it returns the status of |