Renato Botelho <garga <at> FreeBSD.org> writes:

I was working on update git on FreeBSD ports tree to 2.5.0 and I noted 2.5.0
is trying to use perl even when it's being built with NO_PERL knob.

/bin/sh: /usr/bin/perl: not found
Makefile:1701: recipe for target 'common-cmds.h' failed
gmake[2]: *** [common-cmds.h] Error 127
gmake[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/freebsd/ports/head/devel/git/work/git-2.5.0'

After a quick search, looks like commit 527ec3980b is the culprit since it
removed generate-cmdlist.sh and introduced generate-cmdlist.perl.

I just would like to check if it's planned to add perl dependency during
build time or it happened by accident and will be fixed so NO_PERL can work
again.

I also found that some commands require perl when NO_PERL is set:

git-submodule
git-request-pull
git-am

Definitely NO_PERL is not working as expected.