From: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 06:33:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Can git choose perl at runtime?
Message-ID: <CAPUEspgw2xYxNQN-0_nqQrWE4jhmMN-9aHgJ8NvLDcEKTrZNAw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJdN7Kioa22xrDP2ssZXmBbu7KDkcr2MQCUDW=Tzm5ydzeChBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 7:29 PM John Passaro <john.a.passaro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I recently submitted my first patch using OSX and found the experience
> frustrating, for reasons that have come up on the list before,
> concerning git-send-email and perl dependencies that you need to be
> root to update.

you can install them somewhere else (your homedir, for example) and
then instruct perl to look for them there by setting the PERL5LIB
environment variable

Carlo