Pat Pannuto <pat.pannuto@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I spent a little while debugging why git-format-patch refused to believe
> that SSL support was installed (Can't locate Net/SMTP/SSL.pm in @INC...)
> Turns out that it was installed for my system's preferred /usr/local/bin/perl,
> but not for git-format-patch's hard-coded /usr/bin/perl; changing the shebang
> allowed git format-patch to work as expected.
Isn't that an indication that you are not building correctly?
Perhaps
$ git grep 'Define PERL_' Makefile
$ make PERL_PATH=/usr/local/bin/perl
would help?