Re: [PATCH] Git.pm: Support for perl/ being built by a different compiler

Dear diary, on Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 05:14:09AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] said that...

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

This is not really meant for an application yet since it's not clear
if it will alone help anything.

It appears that it did have helped and all went well, according to dst_.

I would question why the rest of git is not built with Sun CC as
well if that is the case.

< dst_> Three points: (1) Gcc comes along with solaris, sun cc not.
< dst_> (2) Git used a lot of GCC'isms whan I last checked a few weeks ago
< dst_> (3) a lot of other software will not ompile out of the box with suncc, so gcc is usually the safer choice

Of course (1) is troublesome since this means you can't build Git on
Solaris without installing Sun CC - I have no other answer to this than
that Solaris is horribly broken. :-( Perhaps ExtUtils::MakeMaker could
be convinced to build with gcc, I'm not sure.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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