[PATCH ab/simplify-perl-makefile] perl: treat PERLLIB_EXTRA as an extra path again (Re: [PATCH v6] Makefile: replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules)

Subject: perl: treat PERLLIB_EXTRA as an extra path again

PERLLIB_EXTRA was introduced in v1.9-rc0~88^2 (2013-11-15) as a way
for packagers to add additional directories such as the location of
Subversion's perl bindings to Git's perl path.  Since 20d2a30f
(Makefile: replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules,
2012-12-10) setting that variable breaks perl-based commands instead:

 $ PATH=$HOME/opt/git/bin:$PATH
 $ make install prefix=$HOME/opt/git PERLLIB_EXTRA=anextralibdir
[...]
 $ head -2 $HOME/opt/git/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 use lib (split(/:/, $ENV{GITPERLLIB} || ":helloiamanextrainstlibdir" || "/usr/local/google/home/jrn/opt/git/share/perl5"));
 $ git add -p
 Empty compile time value given to use lib at /home/jrn/opt/git/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive line 2.

Removing the spurious ":" at the beginning of ":$PERLLIB_EXTRA" avoids
the "Empty compile time value" error but with that tweak the problem
still remains: PERLLIB_EXTRA ends up replacing instead of
supplementing the perllibdir that would be passed to 'use lib' if
PERLLIB_EXTRA were not set.

The intent was to simplify, as the commit message to 20d2a30f
explains:

| The scripts themselves will 'use lib' the target directory, but if
| INSTLIBDIR is set it overrides it. It doesn't have to be this way,
| it could be set in addition to INSTLIBDIR, but my reading of
| [v1.9-rc0~88^2] is that this is the desired behavior.

Restore the previous code structure to make PERLLIB_EXTRA work again.

Reproducing this problem requires an invocation of "make install"
instead of running bin-wrappers/git in place, since the latter sets
the GITPERLLIB environment variable, avoiding trouble.

Reported-by: Jonathan Koren <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
---
Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Hi,

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

quoted

+++ b/Makefile

[...]

quoted

-PERL_DEFINES = $(PERL_PATH_SQ):$(PERLLIB_EXTRA_SQ)
-$(SCRIPT_PERL_GEN): % : %.perl perl/perl.mak GIT-PERL-DEFINES GIT-VERSION-FILE
+PERL_DEFINES = $(PERL_PATH_SQ):$(PERLLIB_EXTRA_SQ):$(perllibdir_SQ)
+$(SCRIPT_PERL_GEN): % : %.perl GIT-PERL-DEFINES GIT-VERSION-FILE
 	$(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ $@+ && \
-	INSTLIBDIR=`MAKEFLAGS= $(MAKE) -C perl -s --no-print-directory instlibdir` && \
 	INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA='$(PERLLIB_EXTRA_SQ)' && \
 	INSTLIBDIR="$$INSTLIBDIR$${INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA:+:$$INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA}" && \
 	sed -e '1{' \
 	    -e '	s|#!.*perl|#!$(PERL_PATH_SQ)|' \
 	    -e '	h' \
-	    -e '	s=.*=use lib (split(/$(pathsep)/, $$ENV{GITPERLLIB} || "'"$$INSTLIBDIR"'"));=' \
+	    -e '	s=.*=use lib (split(/$(pathsep)/, $$ENV{GITPERLLIB} || "'"$$INSTLIBDIR"'" || "'"$(perllibdir_SQ)"'"));=' \

This appears to have broken a build with INSTLIBDIR set.

Here it is in patch form.

 Makefile | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5c73cd208a..409e8f6ec9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile

@@ -1951,12 +1951,13 @@ $(SCRIPT_PERL_GEN):
 PERL_DEFINES = $(PERL_PATH_SQ):$(PERLLIB_EXTRA_SQ):$(perllibdir_SQ)
 $(SCRIPT_PERL_GEN): % : %.perl GIT-PERL-DEFINES GIT-VERSION-FILE
 	$(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ $@+ && \
+	INSTLIBDIR='$(perllibdir_SQ)' && \
 	INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA='$(PERLLIB_EXTRA_SQ)' && \
 	INSTLIBDIR="$$INSTLIBDIR$${INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA:+:$$INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA}" && \
 	sed -e '1{' \
 	    -e '	s|#!.*perl|#!$(PERL_PATH_SQ)|' \
 	    -e '	h' \
-	    -e '	s=.*=use lib (split(/$(pathsep)/, $$ENV{GITPERLLIB} || "'"$$INSTLIBDIR"'" || "'"$(perllibdir_SQ)"'"));=' \
+	    -e '	s=.*=use lib (split(/$(pathsep)/, $$ENV{GITPERLLIB} || "'"$$INSTLIBDIR"'"));=' \
 	    -e '	H' \
 	    -e '	x' \
 	    -e '}' \

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