From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:18:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: set PERL_PATH and SHELL_PATH unconditionally
Message-ID: <7vtyxuox7u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1256029588-24128-1-git-send-email-kraai@ftbfs.org>

Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org> writes:

> Do not check whether PERL_PATH and SHELL_PATH are undefined before
> setting their default values.  This prevents them from being set via
> environment variables.

Is there an upside of "preventing them from getting set", by the way?