From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2023 14:42:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] global: resolve Perl executable via PATH
Message-ID: <ZC2I7CfVzY6Tl7Pk@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <d9cfad7caf9ff5bf88eb06cf7bb3be5e70e6d96f.1680689378.git.ps@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> 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