Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: > At least on my system the following combination works: > > git diff > diff --git a/t/Makefile b/t/Makefile > index f8f8c54..391a5ca 100644 > --- a/t/Makefile > +++ b/t/Makefile > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ > > #GIT_TEST_OPTS = --verbose --debug > SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL) > -PERL_PATH ?= /usr/bin/perl > +PERL_PATH = "/Users/tb/projects/git/tb/pe rl" I do not think that will fly. Having that in the main Makefile where the existing users of the symbol relies on it without any surrounding quotes, e.g. $(patsubst %.perl,%,$(SCRIPT_PERL)): % : %.perl GIT-VERSION-FILE $(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ $@+ && \ INSTLIBDIR=`MAKEFLAGS= $(MAKE) -C perl -s --no-print-directory instlibdir` && \ sed -e '1{' \ -e ' s|#!.*perl|#!$(PERL_PATH_SQ)|' \ -e ' h' \ -e ' s=.*=use lib (split(/$(pathsep)/, $$ENV{GITPERLLIB} || "'"$$INSTLIBDIR"'"));=' \ -e ' H' \ -e ' x' \ -e '}' \ -e 's/@@GIT_VERSION@@/$(GIT_VERSION)/g' \ $@.perl >$@+ && \ chmod +x $@+ && \ mv $@+ $@ where $(PERL_PATH_SQ) is defined to replace each ' in $(PERL_PATH) with '\'' so that '$(PERL_PATH_SQ)' becomes a shell-safe way to quote the value of PERL_PATH without quotes, your definition will look for a relative path that is inside a directory named '"' (that's a single double-quote). -- 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