From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:46:32 GMT
Subject: Re: git-instaweb portability issue (maybe?)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0806130946060.8043@alchemy.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <6dbd4d000806130638k4461a41eo8ce6fe803505fa88@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Denis Bueno wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:26, Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That line simply calls perl by the $PERL variable, which is set at the
>> top of the script, like so:
>>
>>    PERL='/usr/bin/env perl'
>>
>> If I change this line to point to my perl directly, it works.  On a
>> hunch, I changed it to:
>>
>>    PERL="/usr/bin/env perl"  # note the double-quotes
>
> [snip lies]
>
> Apparently I didn't test this thoroughly enough, and I was wrong.
> Changing the quotes has no effect.
>
> So git-instaweb only works for me if I manually specify my perl path.
> Can anyone think of why this might be?

Does OS X ship /usr/bin/env?

If you type "/usr/bin/env perl" in a Terminal window, do you get Perl?

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