Re: Question about PERL_PATH

From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Date: May 6, 2011, 16:42 UTC
Message-ID: <4DC424EB.6000107@mev.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7v7ha33jd7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 06/05/11 17:05, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> The Gentoo ebuilds for git have started invoking 'make' with the option
>> 'PERL_PATH=/usr/bin/env perl'.  This doesn't seem to cause any problems
>> except when running git instaweb, which outputs an error similar to the
>> following:
>>
>> /usr/libexec/git-core/git-instaweb: line 135: /usr/bin/env perl: No such
>> file or directory
> 
> The variable is not PERL_COMMAND_LINE, but is PERL_PATH, so I think it
> should expects the path to the program.
> 
> Our testsuite also rely on it being the path to the program by enclosing
> the reference to it inside double quotes, to make sure that PERL_PATH set
> to "/Program Files/Perl/perl.exe" works.  Didn't Gentoo folks see any test
> breakage before shipping the ebuild procedure?

Both you and Michael make excellent points and I've submitted a Gentoo bug report mentioning this thread, so we'll see what happens!

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366241

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