On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 07:39:36PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > +ifeq ($(wildcard $(PERL_PATH)),)
> I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish with the wildcard, unless
> it is "PERL_PATH = /usr/*/perl" or similar, but that seems a bit crazy
> to me. It should probably behave the same as TCLTK_PATH, though (so if
> there is a good use case, TCLTK_PATH should be enhanced).
No. The ifeq ($(wildcard $(PERL_PATH)),) is entirely correct.
It's one of the few ways to detect the existence of a file from within
Make, without any exec calls. If you give it a non-expandable path,
/usr/bin/perl in this case, it checks only that path, and either returns
it or an empty string. This enables us to check that /usr/bin/perl
exists, and take suitable action if it does not.

It's not suitable for use with the TCLTK_PATH, as that isn't an absolute
path, so the wildcard trick doesn't work.

> I don't think there is a point in setting NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER if NO_PERL
> is set, and I believe the export is pointless, as I described in an
> earlier email.
From further down the Makefile:
ifdef NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER
    export NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER
endif

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