From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:08:44 GMT
Subject: Re: difftool uses hardcoded perl shebang
Message-ID: <xmqqh8smwspv.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171219164532.GA6745@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> In the meantime, pointing to the actual build-time perl is a workaround
> (but obviously not if it's being done by a third-party packager who has
> no idea where your perl is).

Is such a binary packaging scheme actually in use that deliberately
leaves it up to the end user where/if a perl is installed and if it
is an appropriately recent version?  It sounds rather irresponsible
to me.