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From: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>
Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:07:15 +0200
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > * perl scripts like git-remote contain a hard-coded path to the
> > installation directory and don't work for this reason.
> 
> GITPERLLIB should be set from the wrapper script, I think.

The clean way is certainly to derive the directory from $0:

use lib $0 =~ /^(.*)([\/\\]+[^\/\\]*){2}$/ ? ("$1/lib") : ();

(although I'm not sure whether this would work during 'make test').

-- Hannes