Re: [Patch] Using 'perl' in *.sh

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Date: Jul 9, 2006, 09:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20060709095114.GQ22573@lug-owl.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060709094630.GB5919@steel.home>

On Sun, 2006-07-09 11:46:30 +0200, Alex Riesen <fork0@t-online.de> wrote:

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> 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.

My personal oppinion is to call perl scripts as `perl foo.pl' and thus let the user decide (by means of setting $PATH) which perl incarnation she wants to use.

MfG, JBG

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