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INSTALL: warn about recent Fedora breakage
Recent releases of Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/) against the upstream Perl5 people's wishes. The Time::HiRes module used by gitweb one of them. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
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features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
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interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can
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live without these, use NO_PERL.
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live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of
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Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some
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core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/),
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so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl
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itself, e.g. Time::HiRes.
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- "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
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If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.

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