Re: [Bug] git-credential-netrc.perl is not built and is not available in `exec-path`

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 21, 2021, 10:06 UTC
Message-ID: <YKeGP6STQMy63tEJ@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87k0nt3f8i.fsf@gmail.com>

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 02:21:25PM +0430, Siavash wrote:

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> If I'm not mistaken, it's because it sets the `SCRIPT_PERL` environment variable here:
> https://github.com/git/git/blob/88dd4282d949cdafff516650c1be8aaf4d67983f/contrib/credential/netrc/Makefile#L13
> 
> But the Git Makefile un-sets environment variables here:
> https://github.com/git/git/blob/88dd4282d949cdafff516650c1be8aaf4d67983f/Makefile#L587

That part is OK. The netrc build runs "make SCRIPT_PERL=...", which will override any instances where it is set in the top-level Makefile.

So just doing:

  cd contrib/credential/netrc
  make install

should be enough to make it work.

-Peff