Re: git-instaweb portability issue (maybe?)

Luciano Rocha [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:39:11AM -0400, Denis Bueno wrote:

quoted

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:21, Luciano Rocha [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Try changing the following line instead:
       "$PERL" -p -e "$script" "$1.tmp" > "$1"
to
       $PERL -p -e "$script" "$1.tmp" > "$1"

about line 6121 of the git-instaweb script.

This is line 6033 for me; however, this change makes it work!  (I
verified my changing this line; trying it; then changing it back to
the double-quotes version, and verifying it breaks.)

Why?

"$PERL" means the content of the variable is used as the command to
execute.

$PERL, on the other hand, goes through a round of word splitting, that
in your case results in the command "/usr/bin/env", with the arguments
"perl", "-p", ...

Thus, if it is possible to use /usr/bin/env, the current "$PERL"
incantation is incorrect.

The problem is with trying to ensure that both

   /path/with spaces/perl

and

   /usr/bin/env perl

work, as they require different rules wrt. splitting on whitespace...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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