From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 19:59:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [bug] 2.5.0 build with NO_PERL is broken
Message-ID: <xmqq7foxiqu6.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150814T184447-932@post.gmane.org>

Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> I also found that some commands require perl when NO_PERL is set:
>
> git-submodule
> git-request-pull
> git-am
>
> Definitely NO_PERL is not working as expected.

NO_PERL merely means "I want to build a subset of Git that is meant
to be usable on a system without a working Perl installed".  These
scripts that do require Perl installed are indeed not expected to
work under NO_PERL (if you think about it, that would be natural and
the only sensible expectation---otherwise we would have coded them
without using Perl at all, in which case there will be no need for
NO_PERL in the first place).