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Re: Question about PERL_PATH

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Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Date
May 7, 2011, 18:02 UTC
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On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:05:08AM -0700,  Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> The variable is not PERL_COMMAND_LINE, but is PERL_PATH, so I think it
> should expects the path to the program.
> 
> Our testsuite also rely on it being the path to the program by enclosing
> the reference to it inside double quotes, to make sure that PERL_PATH set
> to "/Program Files/Perl/perl.exe" works.  Didn't Gentoo folks see any test
> breakage before shipping the ebuild procedure?

The entire test suite completes fine with our PERL_PATH="${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/env perl" setting.

This was originally put into place because of our bug #326625 [1]. From that bug: ==== Git does not compile if local::lib installed in user's home directory if 'sudo' is used to raise privileges. Local::lib exports environment variable PERL5_MM_OPTS, which contains string INSTALL_BASE='...'. Variable PREFIX is set in package's Makefile.pl. Package will not compile if both of these variables are set. ==== (Full logs attached in the bug).

If you can suggest a better way to fix the user's bug, I'll revert the PERL_PATH change.

1. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326625
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  1. Ian AbbottMay 6, 2011
  2. Michael J GruberMay 6, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 6, 2011
  4. Ian AbbottMay 6, 2011
  5. Robin H. JohnsonMay 7, 2011
  6. Jeff KingMay 8, 2011
  7. Drew NorthupMay 9, 2011

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