From: rob@robdavies.net
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2025 04:57:02 GMT
Subject: gitweb and gitweb_config.perl problem
Message-ID: <4f19f3b21d3db8d7cdb962089910839c@robdavies.net>

Hi

I found a bug in gitweb when using gitweb_config.perl

I downloaded and installed gitweb from source, it worked at this point. 
I configured using a gitweb_config.perl file, it was at this point I got 
an error :
500 - Internal Server Error No such file or directory at gitweb.cgi line 
734.

I ran gitweb.cgi from the command line and got this error as well as the 
error above :
[Sun Oct  5 04:53:37 2025] gitweb.cgi: do "gitweb_config.perl" failed, 
'.' is no longer in @INC; did you mean do "./gitweb_config.perl"? at 
./gitweb.cgi line 732.

I then changed line 744 in gitweb.cgi from :
	our $GITWEB_CONFIG = $ENV{'GITWEB_CONFIG'} || "gitweb_config.perl";
to
	our $GITWEB_CONFIG = $ENV{'GITWEB_CONFIG'} || "./gitweb_config.perl";
and it worked

I have seen this same error on
https://bugs.gentoo.org/675864

Solution :
I changed the file git/gitweb/Makefile line 14 from :
GITWEB_CONFIG = gitweb_config.perl
to
GITWEB_CONFIG = ./gitweb_config.perl

when I built it this time using :
make gitweb
make gitwebdir=~/www/www/gitweb install-gitweb

It now worked when I configured using the file gitweb_config.perl.

Kind regards,
Rob Davies