Re: [PATCH] global: resolve Perl executable via PATH

From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 5, 2023, 14:42 UTC
Message-ID: <ZC2I7CfVzY6Tl7Pk@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <d9cfad7caf9ff5bf88eb06cf7bb3be5e70e6d96f.1680689378.git.ps@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

Show 5 quoted lines

> The majority of Perl scripts we carry in Git have a `#!/usr/bin/perl`
> shebang. This is not a portable location for the Perl interpreter and
> may thus break on some systems that have the interpreter installed in a
> different location. One such example is NixOS, where the only executable
> installed in `/usr/bin` is env(1).

Is there a reason to not set PERL_PATH, which is the documented method to handle this? From the Makefike:

# Define PERL_PATH to the path of your Perl binary (usually /usr/bin/perl).

-- 
Todd