On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 07:56:36PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> Ah, I see. You are not asking "was PERL_PATH blank" but rather "does
> PERL_PATH exist". And I think that is not the right thing for the
> Makefile, as it is unlike any other part of the git Makefile, which
> generally does what it is told with the minimum of magic. That sort of
> magic generally goes into configure.ac.
At a glance, PERL_PATH in configure.ac isn't actually used at the
moment, the definition in the Makefile overrides it.

> So NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER is _already_ exported, and I don't think there is
> any reason to export NO_PERL in the environment (see patch 4/4, which
> exports it via GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS).
Ok, drop the export then, but do keep at least the if(is empty
PERL_PATH) then { set NO_PERL }, even if you won't keep the existence
check.

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