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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-am and git-submodule rely on $PATH to find perl
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:40:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110722224017.GC19620@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwm0inqr.fsf@write-only.cryp.to>

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:35:56AM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:

> Both scripts run perl without any path, i.e. they don't use the
> $PERL_PATH that was passed at build time.

This isn't exactly a bug. The rule we usually follow in git is that you
can use "perl" in the PATH when you are doing simple awk-like things
that any version of perl should do. But you must use PERL_PATH for
#!-lines (because we can't do PATH lookup there), or for any non-trivial
script.

That being said, I don't see any downside to using PERL_PATH. The
Makefile tweaks would be pretty minimal. Want to work up a patch?

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-22 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-20 22:35 [BUG] git-am and git-submodule rely on $PATH to find perl Peter Simons
2011-07-22 22:40 ` Jeff King [this message]

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