Fatal error in patchlevel.h about webperl HOT 7 CLOSED

Seems to be part of perl for me:

/Users/daveh/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.24.4/perl-5.24.4/git_version.h
/Users/daveh/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.26.2/perl-5.26.2/git_version.h
/Users/daveh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.4/lib/5.24.4/darwin-2level/CORE/git_version.h
/Users/daveh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.26.2/lib/5.26.2/darwin-2level/CORE/git_version.h

from webperl.

On my computer, it doesn't appear to be in the correct place? That is:

	rem16$ pwd
	/Users/rem16/git/webperl
	rem16$ find . -name "git_version.h" -print
	./work/hostperl/git_version.h

but it doesn't appear to be in the emperl5 directory, where emmake is looking for it.

from webperl.

Hi, thanks for the report, are you building this on Mac OS X? I've only tested the build on Linux so far. I'll look into this issue a little more later to see if there's an easy workaround.

from webperl.

Yes, this is on Mac OS 10.13. Thanks!

from webperl.

Ok, as I said I'll look into it when I get a chance, if you could let me know any other changes you have to make to get the build working on Mac OS X, that'd be great so I could include them in the build instructions!

from webperl.

On my machine, the file is also located at .../webperl/work/hostperl/git_version.h, and AFAICT this is the standard location. I suspect that it not being found means the include directories are not being configured correctly, or your compiler on Mac OS X is behaving differently.

I don't have a Mac OS X setup on which I could test, but what you could try doing is, after a build.pl run, edit emperl5/config.sh and change the incpath variable (or incpth, I'm not sure at the moment) to include the absolute pathname of work/hostperl/, and then run build.pl --applyconfig, and see if that helps.

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Closing for now; can be re-opened if necessary.

(Note: The issue apparently only affects building on Mac OS X, but only Linux is "officially" supported at the moment. Adding OSX build support might be nice, but is not high-priority.)

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