Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > That's a good point and not an idle question. It wasn't all that long > ago that I rewrote `generate-cmdlist` in Perl and got a complaint that > the Git project was no longer buildable on FreeBSD[1], with the result > that I ended up re-implementing it (again) in shell[2]. > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/loom.20150814T171757-901@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/1440365469-9928-1-git-send-email-sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ If it works without Perl, I would not complain too much, but NO_PERL is purely about the execution environment (i.e. do not build and/or install what requires Perl at runtime), so the old complaint [1] misses the point, I would have to say. We do expect a working Perl in test enviroment to run test suite, for example.
