Re: [PATCH] Makefile: replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Jeff King wrote:

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 07:54:30PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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Replace the perl/Makefile.PL and the fallback perl/Makefile used under
NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=NoThanks with a much simpler implementation heavily
inspired by how the i18n infrastructure's build process works[1].

I'm very happy to see the recursive make invocation go away. The perl
makefile generation was one of the few places where parallel make could
racily get confused (though I haven't seen that for a while, so maybe it
was fixed alongside some of the other .stamp work you did).

As a datapoint, I've seen it fairly regularly with -j8 in 2.15.1
builds from a clean tree that I've been doing recently.  I'm looking
forward to not having to make the choice between "maybe run it twice"
or "compile slower" -- this looks great!
- Alex