From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 16:01:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perl shebangs: Use /usr/bin/env, not /usr/bin/perl
Message-ID: <20100521160143.GA29031@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <86tyq1gti2.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:32:53AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> The official Perl should be in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, and that's
> the one you should use with Git.  *Or*, give the installer a knob to
> configure.

Don't we already provide a knob? The Makefile has:

  $(patsubst %.perl,%,$(SCRIPT_PERL)): % : %.perl
  [...]
          sed -e '1{' \
              -e '        s|#!.*perl|#!$(PERL_PATH_SQ)|' \
  [...]

So just setting PERL_PATH should be enough (from which PERL_PATH_SQ is
derived).

-Peff