On 06/05/11 17:05, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The Gentoo ebuilds for git have started invoking 'make' with the option >> 'PERL_PATH=/usr/bin/env perl'. This doesn't seem to cause any problems >> except when running git instaweb, which outputs an error similar to the >> following: >> >> /usr/libexec/git-core/git-instaweb: line 135: /usr/bin/env perl: No such >> file or directory > > The variable is not PERL_COMMAND_LINE, but is PERL_PATH, so I think it > should expects the path to the program. > > Our testsuite also rely on it being the path to the program by enclosing > the reference to it inside double quotes, to make sure that PERL_PATH set > to "/Program Files/Perl/perl.exe" works. Didn't Gentoo folks see any test > breakage before shipping the ebuild procedure? Both you and Michael make excellent points and I've submitted a Gentoo bug report mentioning this thread, so we'll see what happens! http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366241 -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=- -- 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