Re: [Patch] Using 'perl' in *.sh

Michal Rokos [off-list ref] writes:

Hi,

some GIT's shell script are using bare 'perl' for perl invocation. It's 
causing me problems... I compile git with PERL_PATH set and I'd suggest to 
use it everywhere.

So @@PERL@@ would be replaced with PERL_PATH_SQ instead.

What do you think?

Absolutely.

I think it was just sloppiness that we did not do so already.
Thanks.

Junio C Hamano, Sat, Jul 08, 2006 20:27:37 +0200:

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some GIT's shell script are using bare 'perl' for perl invocation. It's 
causing me problems... I compile git with PERL_PATH set and I'd suggest to 
use it everywhere.

So @@PERL@@ would be replaced with PERL_PATH_SQ instead.

What do you think?

Absolutely.

Now imagine a non-posix system where an upgrade was made. Amongst
other things perl was moved, i.e. from /opt/perl-5.8.8 to
/usr/local/{bin,lib}. Suddenly git breaks.

On Sun, 2006-07-09 11:46:30 +0200, Alex Riesen [off-list ref] wrote:

Junio C Hamano, Sat, Jul 08, 2006 20:27:37 +0200:

quoted

quoted

some GIT's shell script are using bare 'perl' for perl invocation. It's 
causing me problems... I compile git with PERL_PATH set and I'd suggest to 
use it everywhere.

So @@PERL@@ would be replaced with PERL_PATH_SQ instead.

What do you think?

Absolutely.

Now imagine a non-posix system where an upgrade was made. Amongst
other things perl was moved, i.e. from /opt/perl-5.8.8 to
/usr/local/{bin,lib}. Suddenly git breaks.

My personal oppinion is to call perl scripts as `perl foo.pl' and thus
let the user decide (by means of setting $PATH) which perl incarnation
she wants to use.

MfG, JBG

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On 7/9/06, Alex Riesen [off-list ref] wrote:

Junio C Hamano, Sat, Jul 08, 2006 20:27:37 +0200:

quoted

quoted

some GIT's shell script are using bare 'perl' for perl invocation. It's
causing me problems... I compile git with PERL_PATH set and I'd suggest to
use it everywhere.

So @@PERL@@ would be replaced with PERL_PATH_SQ instead.

What do you think?

Absolutely.

Now imagine a non-posix system where an upgrade was made. Amongst
other things perl was moved, i.e. from /opt/perl-5.8.8 to
/usr/local/{bin,lib}. Suddenly git breaks.

Building new perl for sources never removed,
by itself, older perls on the system. Did it ever for you ?
How would installing new perl into new location
break git ? It would only break if you *remove*
old perl, not if you install new perl into new
location, no ?

Yakov

Yakov Lerner, Sun, Jul 09, 2006 12:09:30 +0200:

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Now imagine a non-posix system where an upgrade was made. Amongst
other things perl was moved, i.e. from /opt/perl-5.8.8 to
/usr/local/{bin,lib}. Suddenly git breaks.

Building new perl for sources never removed,
by itself, older perls on the system. Did it ever for you ?

No. But a strange package management program will remove the old perl.