public inbox for git@vger.kernel.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org,
	Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail•com>,
	Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw•cz>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2/RFC] gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitweb
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:21:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007142321.26034.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikDtlHwtk4j0E5vYViFVWtsV_yA5e90z-6nZb8_@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:24, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 22:24, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wrote simple script that tests result of __DIR__ and $FindBin::Bin.
>>>> For cgi-bin / mod_cgi it was:
>>>>
>>>>  __DIR__       = /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb (symlink to /home/local/gitweb)
>>>>  $FindBin::Bin = /home/local/gitweb
>>>>
>>>> For mod_perl (ModPerl::Registry handler) it was
>>>>
>>>>  __DIR__       = /var/www/perl/gitweb (symlink to /home/local/gitweb)
>>>>  $FindBin::Bin = /
>>>>
>>>> As you can see it's useless.  I have't checked the FastCGI case...
>>>
>>> Thanks for spending time researching what was an offhand ignorant "hey
>>> wasn't .." comment. Also, sorry :)
>>
>> Nothing to it.  I wanted to check if there really is a problem with
>> FindBin on mod_perl, as I was not sure with description in "Known Issues"
>> section in FindBin manpage.
>>
>> Note that using 'FindBin->again();' after 'use FindBin;' fixes this
>> issue.  So perhaps it would be beter to use FindBin than borrow code
>> for __DIR__ from Dir::Self.
> 
> That should work, though note that FindBin->again requires at least
> perl 5.8.3. This should work on older versions (if Gitweb cares):
> 
>     if ($] <= 5.008003) {
>         delete $INC{'FindBin.pm'};
>         require FindBin;
>     } else {
>         FindBin->again;
>     }
> 
> See https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=57988 and
> http://search.cpan.org/diff?from=Module-Install-0.98&to=Module-Install-0.99
> for reference.

Thanks for research.

I don't think gitweb cares, as it requires Perl with sane Unicode support,
which means at least Perl 5.8.0 (for Encode module), but I think it really
means at least 5.8.3

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-14 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-07  9:57 [PATCHv2/RFC] gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitweb Jakub Narebski
2010-07-07 10:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-07 20:05   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-07-08  7:01     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-07-13 22:24     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-07-13 22:30       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-14  9:24         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-07-14 10:05           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-14 21:21             ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2010-07-07 16:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-07 20:20   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-07-08  0:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-08  6:59       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-07-08  7:20         ` [PATCHv3/RFC] " Jakub Narebski

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=201007142321.26034.jnareb@gmail.com \
    --to=jnareb@gmail$(echo .)com \
    --cc=avarab@gmail$(echo .)com \
    --cc=chriscool@tuxfamily$(echo .)org \
    --cc=git@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=pasky@ucw$(echo .)cz \
    --cc=pavan.sss1991@gmail$(echo .)com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox