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From: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: [bug] 2.5.0 build with =?utf-8?b?Tk9fUEVSTA==?= is broken
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:46:18 +0000 (UTC)
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Renato Botelho <garga <at> FreeBSD.org> writes:

> 
> I was working on update git on FreeBSD ports tree to 2.5.0 and I noted 2.5.0
> is trying to use perl even when it's being built with NO_PERL knob.
> 
> /bin/sh: /usr/bin/perl: not found
> Makefile:1701: recipe for target 'common-cmds.h' failed
> gmake[2]: *** [common-cmds.h] Error 127
> gmake[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/freebsd/ports/head/devel/git/work/git-2.5.0'
> 
> After a quick search, looks like commit 527ec3980b is the culprit since it
> removed generate-cmdlist.sh and introduced generate-cmdlist.perl.
> 
> I just would like to check if it's planned to add perl dependency during
> build time or it happened by accident and will be fixed so NO_PERL can work
> again.

I also found that some commands require perl when NO_PERL is set:

git-submodule
git-request-pull
git-am

Definitely NO_PERL is not working as expected.