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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Yuck; that means we would need to have something evil like this.
>
> That's just disgusting.
>
> How about a _much_ simpler approach.
>
> Just make it do
>
> 	BEGIN { push ENV{'GIT_PERL_EXEC_DIR'}; }
>
> And then simply _require_ that the setup code sets up GIT_PERL_EXEC_DIR.

No, we are not mucking with /usr/bin but are talking about a
directory for platform specific Perl libraries, which we need to
ask Perl at build-time.

And the standard way to say that is to do:

	use lib '@@INSTLIBDIR@@';

but that always prepends the directory to the search path, and
the ugly stuff is to allow test scripts to override it when
needed.