From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 23:02:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Try 2: Allow PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/env perl"
Message-ID: <7vfy6dzf25.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <463A6930.8090603@larsen.st>

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.