# running git from non-standard location on Mac 4 messages from 2013-02-21 to 2013-02-21. Participants: James French, Konstantin Khomoutov, Matthieu Moy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/32956 ## James French, 2013-02-21 09:48 Subject: running git from non-standard location on Mac Message-ID: <1CE1BECC0915A6448EAE5D7080EDA905052078C95E@oxexc1> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1CE1BECC0915A6448EAE5D7080EDA905052078C95E%40oxexc1 ``` Hi, I wonder if someone could help me. I installed git on a Mac and then I copied the install somewhere else (which I do want to do, trust me).  I'm now having trouble with git svn. I'm getting "Can't locate Git/SVN.pm in @INC..." I've added the bin folder to PATH. What else do I need to do? Do I need to use -exec-path=/MyPathToGit/libexec/git-core? How do I change the content of @INC? Apologies if this is a dumb question, I'm not much of a unix man. Cheers, James ``` ## Konstantin Khomoutov, 2013-02-21 10:35 Subject: Re: running git from non-standard location on Mac Message-ID: <20130221143525.726f06827351376b59a02f4b@domain007.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20130221143525.726f06827351376b59a02f4b%40domain007.com In-Reply-To: <1CE1BECC0915A6448EAE5D7080EDA905052078C95E@oxexc1> ``` On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:48:36 +0000 James French wrote: > I wonder if someone could help me. I installed git on a Mac and then > I copied the install somewhere else (which I do want to do, trust > me).  I'm now having trouble with git svn. I'm getting "Can't locate > Git/SVN.pm in @INC..." > > I've added the bin folder to PATH. What else do I need to do? Do I > need to use -exec-path=/MyPathToGit/libexec/git-core? How do I change > the content of @INC? > > Apologies if this is a dumb question, I'm not much of a unix man. `git svn` is implemented in Perl (which is supposedly bundled with your Git package, but I'm not sure), and "SVN.pm" is a Perl module (a library written in Perl, ".pm" stands for "Perl Module"). @INC is an internal variable used by Perl to locate its modules. Its contents is partially inferred from the Perl's installation location and partially from the environment. This [1] should help you get started with affecting @INC. 1. http://stackoverflow.com/a/2526809/720999 ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2013-02-21 10:53 Subject: Re: running git from non-standard location on Mac Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpq8v6ix7jc.fsf%40grenoble-inp.fr In-Reply-To: <20130221143525.726f06827351376b59a02f4b@domain007.com> ``` Konstantin Khomoutov writes: > This [1] should help you get started with affecting @INC. In the particular case of Git, the Makefile hardcodes the path to the Git library. The script git-svn in Git's exec-path should start with: use lib (split(/:/, $ENV{GITPERLLIB} || "/some/hardcoded/path/to/perl/5.10.1")); Setting the $GITPERLLIB environment variable or editing the script to let the hardcoded path point to the place where the Git.pm file is should do it. But I still have to wonder why you didn't build Git with the right paths in the first place. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ``` ## James French, 2013-02-21 11:48 Subject: RE: running git from non-standard location on Mac Message-ID: <1CE1BECC0915A6448EAE5D7080EDA905052078CA55@oxexc1> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1CE1BECC0915A6448EAE5D7080EDA905052078CA55%40oxexc1 In-Reply-To: <20130221143525.726f06827351376b59a02f4b@domain007.com> ``` -----Original Message----- From: Konstantin Khomoutov [mailto:flatworm@users.sourceforge.net] Sent: 21 February 2013 10:35 To: James French Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: running git from non-standard location on Mac On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:48:36 +0000 James French wrote: > I wonder if someone could help me. I installed git on a Mac and then I > copied the install somewhere else (which I do want to do, trust me).   > I'm now having trouble with git svn. I'm getting "Can't locate > Git/SVN.pm in @INC..." > > I've added the bin folder to PATH. What else do I need to do? Do I > need to use -exec-path=/MyPathToGit/libexec/git-core? How do I change > the content of @INC? > > Apologies if this is a dumb question, I'm not much of a unix man. `git svn` is implemented in Perl (which is supposedly bundled with your Git package, but I'm not sure), and "SVN.pm" is a Perl module (a library written in Perl, ".pm" stands for "Perl Module"). @INC is an internal variable used by Perl to locate its modules. Its contents is partially inferred from the Perl's installation location and partially from the environment. This [1] should help you get started with affecting @INC. 1. http://stackoverflow.com/a/2526809/720999 Thanks for the help guys. I got it working using --exec-path and PERL5LIB environment variable. But Matthieu is right, I should build it from source to do it properly. ```