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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/makerel b/Porting/makerel index e4dfdefbc7..d0bf4eff95 100644 --- a/Porting/makerel +++ b/Porting/makerel @@ -3,6 +3,20 @@ # A tool to build a perl release tarball # Very basic but functional - if you're on a unix system. # +# If you're on Win32 then it should still work, but various Unix command-line +# tools will need to be available somewhere. An obvious choice is to install +# Cygwin and ensure its 'bin' folder is on the PATH in the shell where you run +# this script. The Cygwin 'bin' folder needs to precede the Windows 'system32' +# folder so that Cygwin's 'find' command is found in preference to the Windows +# 'find' command. Your Cygwin installation will need to contain at least the +# 'cpio' command, in addition to the commands installed by default, and it will +# also be useful to have 'curl' and 'diffstat' installed too for later stages +# of the release process (namely, Porting\corelist.pl and generating the commit +# statistics for the perlXYZdelta.pod file respectively). Finally, ensure that +# the 'awk' and 'shasum' commands are copies of gawk.exe and sha1sum.exe +# respectively, rather the links to them that only work in a Cygwin bash shell +# which they are by default. +# # No matter how automated this gets, you'll always need to read # and re-read pumpkin.pod and release_managers_guide.pod to # check for things to be done at various stages of the process. @@ -189,8 +203,9 @@ print "\n"; system("ls -ld $perl*"); print "\n"; +my $null = $^O eq 'MSWin32' ? 'NUL' : '/dev/null'; for my $sha (qw(sha1 shasum sha1sum)) { - if (`which $sha 2>/dev/null`) { + if (`which $sha 2>$null`) { system("$sha $perl*.tar.*"); last; } |