On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 10:42:52AM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > The majority of Perl scripts we carry in Git have a `#!/usr/bin/perl` > > shebang. This is not a portable location for the Perl interpreter and > > may thus break on some systems that have the interpreter installed in a > > different location. One such example is NixOS, where the only executable > > installed in `/usr/bin` is env(1). > > Is there a reason to not set PERL_PATH, which is the > documented method to handle this? From the Makefike: > > # Define PERL_PATH to the path of your Perl binary (usually /usr/bin/perl). Setting PERL_PATH helps with a subset of invocations where the Makefile either executes Perl directly or where it writes the shebang itself. But the majority of scripts I'm touching have `#!/usr/bin/perl` as shebang, and that path is not adjusted by setting PERL_PATH. I'd be happy to amend the patch series to only fix up shebangs which would not be helped by setting PERL_PATH. But if we can make it work without having to set PERL_PATH at all I don't quite see the point. Patrick
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