Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxx> writes: > [problem with different versions of perl] There's also the case where perl simply isn't available in /usr/bin, but is somewhere else. > 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? Perhaps something like this? diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 865e2bf..5828745 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ ifndef SHELL_PATH SHELL_PATH = /bin/sh endif ifndef PERL_PATH - PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl + PERL_PATH = $(shell which perl) endif export PERL_PATH (untested) This would generate the same files in the common case, but detect another installation at compile time. Note that this is indeed different from the original proposal in the case of a multi-user system: here, the perl installation is chosen once and for all by the guy who installs git, but can't be overridden later (e.g by a user having his own custom perl installation in his $HOME). I don't know which is better. -- Matthieu -- 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
