From: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:20:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh: set PERL5LIB instead of GITPERLLIB
Message-ID: <48448E69.30203@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxrwa008.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> the primary Makefile has this rule to munge our perl scripts:
>
>                 [snip]
>                 sed -e '1{' \
>                     -e '	s|#!.*perl|#!$(PERL_PATH_SQ)|' \
>                     -e '	h' \
>                     -e '	s=.*=use lib (split(/:/, $$ENV{GITPERLLIB} || "@@INSTLIBDIR@@"));=' \
> 
> so that people do not have to have that path on PERL5LIB in their
> environment when they use [...] scripts that do "use Git"
> 
> The real fix to the issue [is]  to fix the build
> procedure of gitweb/gitweb.perl so that the above script rewriting is also
> applied to it.

I'm not good enough with sed to fix this, so if anyone wants to write a 
patch to the Makefile that adds "use lib (split(/:/, $$ENV{GITPERLLIB} 
|| "@@INSTLIBDIR@@"))" to gitweb.perl, please go ahead. ;-)

-- Lea