Re: git-instaweb portability issue (maybe?)

["Denis Bueno" <dbueno@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:42, Chris Ridd <chris.ridd@isode.com> wrote:
> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Chris Ridd wrote:
>>
>>> Denis Bueno wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:46, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does OS X ship /usr/bin/env?
>>>>>
>>>>> If you type "/usr/bin/env perl" in a Terminal window, do you get Perl?
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I should have made that clear earlier: yes.
>>>>
>>>> funsat[122] > /usr/bin/env perl --version
>>>>
>>>> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for darwin-2level
>>>
>>> MacPorts /tends/ to make ports use stuff from other ports instead of
>>> using Apple-installed bits. In this case, maybe git from MacPorts is using
>>> perl from MacPorts?
>>
>> FWIW, the problem seems to be that it's not finding *any* Perl.
>
> That's odd, because the Portfile for git-core (1.5.5.3_0) does the build,
> test and destroot install setting:
>
> PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/env perl" NO_FINK=1 NO_DARWIN_PORTS=1
>
> (and some other stuff). Have you pinged the port maintainer
> (bryan@larsen.st)?

The issue seems to be one of the way bash is treating quotes.  It
apparently is trying to find the *command* "/usr/bin/env perl" and not
executing the command "/usr/bin/env" with a first argument of "perl".

See my message to Luciano moments ago.

-- 
 Denis