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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Curtis Jewell<lists.perl.perl5-porters@csjewell.fastmail.us> wrote: > I should try compiling rsync > using msys myself before I give up on that option, however. I don't know what msys does about fork(), but IIRC, rsync uses fork() in a pretty deeply unixy fashion, i.e., passing lots of global data to the child rather than just creating an independent process. > And considering I'd only be smoking 2-3 times a week (once on blead, > once or twice on maint-5.10), I don't think that it'd hurt all that much > to download a tarball and extract it. That's obviously the right thing to do if it gets you up and running the quickest of the options you're considering. > (I tried with a Git checkout around 5 August, and while it successfully > built, it didn't know what checkout it was at... Maybe that's been fixed > now.) What's pretty new is the existence in the repository of code to generate a reasonable facsimile of the .patch file: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/Porting/make_dot_patch.pl I don't know if anyone's tried to run that on Windows yet, so your experience/feedback could be significant. If it works, adding one line to run it at an appropriate place in Test::Smoke could be all you need to know what commit you're smoking.Thread Previous | Thread Next