Re: [PATCH 0/2] Use env for all perl invocations

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2017, 06:21 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa8awn6i6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170112055140.29877-1-pat.pannuto@gmail.com>

Pat Pannuto <pat.pannuto@gmail.com> writes:

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> I spent a little while debugging why git-format-patch refused to believe
> that SSL support was installed (Can't locate Net/SMTP/SSL.pm in @INC...)
> Turns out that it was installed for my system's preferred /usr/local/bin/perl,
> but not for git-format-patch's hard-coded /usr/bin/perl; changing the shebang
> allowed git format-patch to work as expected.

Isn't that an indication that you are not building correctly? Perhaps

    $ git grep 'Define PERL_' Makefile
    $ make PERL_PATH=/usr/local/bin/perl

would help?