On 31 May 2008, at 3:55 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
If you insist, you can do so from your "make" command line, but I'd
prefer
the default configuration as vanilla as possible.
The main trouble I've run into is with multiple versions of perl
installed.
For instance, it is unadvisable to overwrite the Mac OS X provided perl
distribution. Consequently, custom installations are usually put into
/usr/local (also, MacPorts install everything into /opt/local).
This means that a 'vanilla' configuration may not (most likely will
not) make
use of the perl distribution that is actually employed by the user.
This matters, because some tools like git-send-email require extra CPAN
modules such as Net::SMTP::SSL, which won't be found unless git has been
configured with a custom PERL_PATH.
It would seem to me that something like '/usr/bin/env perl' is slightly
more vanilla in the sense that it can handle more cases.
Perhaps the Makefile can be smarter about guessing the right path?
Sincerely,
Michael Witten
--
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
