add better pod and headers, and clean up some whitespace issues in the previous patches

diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 21770c9..579ad72 100644 (file)
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -3171,7 +3171,7 @@ makedir.SH                        Precursor to makedir
 Makefile.micro                 microperl Makefile
 Makefile.SH                    A script that generates Makefile
 make_patchnum.com              DCL script to generate .patchnum file on VMS (should be replaced by make_patchnum.pl)
-make_patchnum.pl               Script to generate git_Version.h and lib/Config_git.pl files for all OS'es
+make_patchnum.pl               Script to generate git_version.h and lib/Config_git.pl files for all OS'es
 malloc.c                       A version of malloc you might not want
 malloc_ctl.h                   A version of malloc you might not want
 MANIFEST                       This list of files

diff --git a/Makefile.SH b/Makefile.SH
index 352e2ba..6d6ed31 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.SH
+++ b/Makefile.SH
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ sperl.i: perl.c $(h)
 .PHONY: all translators utilities make_patchnum
 
 make_patchnum:
-       $(LDLIBPTH) $(RUN) ./miniperl -Ilib make_patchnum.pl || $(MAKE) miniperl 
+       $(LDLIBPTH) $(RUN) ./miniperl -Ilib make_patchnum.pl || $(MAKE) miniperl
 
 git_version.h: stock_git_version.h
        cp stock_git_version.h git_version.h

diff --git a/configpm b/configpm
index 17f02c5..1825b0d 100755 (executable)
--- a/configpm
+++ b/configpm
@@ -548,11 +548,12 @@ foreach my $prefix (qw(libs libswanted)) {
 $heavy_txt .= "EOVIRTUAL\n";
 
 $heavy_txt .= <<'ENDOFGIT';
-eval { 
+eval {
        # do not have hairy conniptions if this isnt available
        require 'Config_git.pl';
        $Config_SH_expanded .= $Config::Git_Data;
-};
+       1;
+} or warn "Warning: failed to load Config_git.pl, something strange about this perl...\n";
 ENDOFGIT
 
 $heavy_txt .= $fetch_string;

diff --git a/make_patchnum.pl b/make_patchnum.pl
index 95b8db6..ad2e0f2 100644 (file)
--- a/make_patchnum.pl
+++ b/make_patchnum.pl
@@ -13,18 +13,30 @@ make_patchnum.pl - make patchnum
 
   perl make_patchnum.pl
 
+=head1 DESCRITPTION
+
 This program creates the files holding the information
 about locally applied patches to the source code. The created
-files are C<.patchnum>, C<unpushed.h> and C<lib/Config_git.pl>.
+files are  C<git_version.h> and C<lib/Config_git.pl>.
+
+=item C<lib/Config_git.pl>
+
+Contains status information from git in a form meant to be processed
+by the tied hash logic of Config.pm. It is actually optional,
+although -V will look strange without it.
 
-C<.patchnum> contains ???
+C<git_version.h> contains similar information in a C header file
+format, designed to be used by patchlevel.h. This file is obtained
+from stock_git_version.h if miniperl is not available, and then
+later on replaced by the version created by this script.
 
-C<lib/Config_git.pl> contains the configuration of git for
-this branch.
+=head1 AUTHOR
 
-C<unpushed.h> contains the local changes that haven't been
-synchronized with the remote repository as configured with
-C<< git configure branch.<current branch>.remote >>
+Yves Orton, Kenichi Ishigaki, Max Maischein
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Same terms as Perl itself.
 
 =cut
 
@@ -33,7 +45,7 @@ BEGIN {
     while (!-e "$root/perl.c" and length($root)<100) {
         if ($root eq '.') {
                $root="..";
-       } else {
+        } else {
                $root.="/..";
            }
     }
@@ -76,12 +88,12 @@ sub write_files {
     my %content= map { /WARNING: '([^']+)'/ || die "Bad mojo!"; $1 => $_ } @_;
     my @files= sort keys %content;
     my $files= join " and ", map { "'$_'" } @files;
-    foreach my $file (@files) { 
+    foreach my $file (@files) {
         if (read_file($file) ne $content{$file}) {
             print "Updating $files\n";
             write_file($_,$content{$_}) for @files;
             return 1;
-        } 
+        }
     }
     print "Reusing $files\n";
     return 0;
@@ -100,7 +112,7 @@ elsif (-d path_to('.git')) {
     ($branch) = map { /\* ([^(]\S*)/ ? $1 : () } backtick('git branch');
     my ($remote,$merge);
     if (length $branch) {
-        $merge= backtick("git config branch.$branch.merge"); 
+        $merge= backtick("git config branch.$branch.merge");
         $merge =~ s!^refs/heads/!!;
         $remote= backtick("git config branch.$branch.remote");
     }

diff --git a/stock_git_version.h b/stock_git_version.h
index e07962f..cf937de 100644 (file)
--- a/stock_git_version.h
+++ b/stock_git_version.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /***************************************************************************
-* WARNING: git_version.h is automatically generated by make_patchnum.sh 
-*          DO NOT EDIT DIRECTLY - edit make_patchnum.sh instead      
+This is: stock_git_config.h - temporary git_config.h file.
+This file is used at the very start of the build process when we dont have
+a miniperl available to make the real thing.  It is copied in place during
+the build process, and then later on replaced.
 ****************************************************************************/
 #define PERL_PATCHNUM UNKOWN
 #define PERL_GIT_UNCOMMITTED_CHANGES ,"UNKNOWN"