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From: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
To: John Passaro <john.a.passaro@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can git choose perl at runtime?
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:33:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPUEspgw2xYxNQN-0_nqQrWE4jhmMN-9aHgJ8NvLDcEKTrZNAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJdN7Kioa22xrDP2ssZXmBbu7KDkcr2MQCUDW=Tzm5ydzeChBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 7:29 PM John Passaro <john.a.passaro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I recently submitted my first patch using OSX and found the experience
> frustrating, for reasons that have come up on the list before,
> concerning git-send-email and perl dependencies that you need to be
> root to update.

you can install them somewhere else (your homedir, for example) and
then instruct perl to look for them there by setting the PERL5LIB
environment variable

Carlo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-19  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-19  3:09 Can git choose perl at runtime? John Passaro
2018-12-19  3:17 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-12-19  6:33 ` Carlo Arenas [this message]
2018-12-19 13:53   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-12-19 13:43 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-12-21 23:42 ` brian m. carlson
2018-12-23 22:05   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-12-23 23:18     ` brian m. carlson
2018-12-23 23:34       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-12-24  2:20         ` brian m. carlson
2018-12-28 15:38           ` John Passaro

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