Re: Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm in @INC

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 29, 2017, 02:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20170329021807.voys2r65knn6tdwg@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8kpKii+FNZEUqDqLcuEWBsTTnrqMHq_3VLdAzcpDSKFww@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:03:43PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

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> This looks like the last issue with Git 2.12.2. This time the machine
> is Fedora 25.
> 
> I configured with PERL_PATH=/usr/local/bin/perl. The local Perl was
> built specifically for this error, and it includes
> ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm:

I'm not sure what "configured with PERL_PATH" means exactly. If you did:

  PERL_PATH=/usr/local/bin/perl ./configure

then I don't think that works. The way to tell configure that you want to use a specific version of perl is with a command-line option:

  ./configure --with-perl=/usr/local/bin/perl

When you're running make itself, you can override the default (or what was specified during configure) with:

  make PERL_PATH=/usr/local/bin/perl

Both of the latter two work for me:

  $ ./configure --with-perl=/perl/from/configure
  [...]
  $ make
  [...]
  /perl/from/configure Makefile.PL PREFIX='/home/peff/local/git/master' INSTALL_BASE='' --localedir='/home/peff/local/git/master/share/locale'
  make[1]: /perl/from/configure: Command not found

  $ make PERL_PATH=/perl/from/make
  [...]
  /perl/from/make Makefile.PL PREFIX='/home/peff/local/git/master' INSTALL_BASE='' --localedir='/home/peff/local/git/master/share/locale'
  make[1]: /perl/from/make: Command not found

Obviously those are nonsense, but they quickly show that we're using the requested version of perl.

-Peff