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Re: [PATCH] Try 2: Allow PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/env perl"

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 3, 2007, 23:02 UTC
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Bryan Larsen <bryan@larsen.st> writes:
> The perl scripts start with "#!/usr/bin/perl".  There is a mechanism
> PERL_PATH in the Makefile to change this, but it currently doesn't work
> with PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/env perl".

I do not get this whole business. Why would you even want to support that to begin with?

The purpose of PERL_PATH is for you to tell git the path you have your Perl at. It is not about supplying a small shell script that lets "env" to figure it out.

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