From: Alex Riesen <fork0@t-online.de>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:46:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [Patch] Using 'perl' in *.sh
Message-ID: <20060709094630.GB5919@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bdcq7dy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Sat, Jul 08, 2006 20:27:37 +0200:
> >
> > some GIT's shell script are using bare 'perl' for perl invocation. It's 
> > causing me problems... I compile git with PERL_PATH set and I'd suggest to 
> > use it everywhere.
> >
> > So @@PERL@@ would be replaced with PERL_PATH_SQ instead.
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> Absolutely.

Now imagine a non-posix system where an upgrade was made. Amongst
other things perl was moved, i.e. from /opt/perl-5.8.8 to
/usr/local/{bin,lib}. Suddenly git breaks.