Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > This is just an interesting datapoint, but Git's test suite currently > crashes and burns if you don't have a perl in your $PATH, no matter if > you've compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease or not. Yes, I think this was known. Development machines (which is where people tend to run tests most) tend to have perl but some weird production machines did not. > I have a WIP patch series to tackle this issue: > > http://github.com/avar/git/compare/git:pu...in-progress-dont-depend-on-perl > > It adds a PERL dependency to things Reasonable. > and changes perl to > "$PERL_PATH". Is that necessary? As you mentioned before, a lot of uses of perl are for run-of-the-mill one-liners and do not care much which version they get. On the other hand, even if it is not necessary, it might still be a good idea to just stick to one perl version for simplicity. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html