On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 09:08:44AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > In the meantime, pointing to the actual build-time perl is a workaround > > (but obviously not if it's being done by a third-party packager who has > > no idea where your perl is). > > Is such a binary packaging scheme actually in use that deliberately > leaves it up to the end user where/if a perl is installed and if it > is an appropriately recent version? It sounds rather irresponsible > to me. No, I mean that the user can do: make PERL_PATH=/path/to/perl/in/my/PATH but if they are not building Git themselves, that is not an option for them. And a binary packager cannot help them there, because they do not know that path. -Peff
