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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:37:25 -0500
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=C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason wrote:

> This is just an interesting datapoint, but Git's test suite currently
> crashes and burns if you don't have a perl in your $PATH, no matter i=
f
> you've compiled with NO_PERL=3DYesPlease or not.

Yes, I think this was known.  Development machines (which is where
people tend to run tests most) tend to have perl but some weird
production machines did not.

> I have a WIP patch series to tackle this issue:
>=20
>     http://github.com/avar/git/compare/git:pu...in-progress-dont-depe=
nd-on-perl
>=20
> It adds a PERL dependency to things

Reasonable.

> and changes perl to
> "$PERL_PATH".

Is that necessary?  As you mentioned before, a lot of uses of perl are
for run-of-the-mill one-liners and do not care much which version they
get.

On the other hand, even if it is not necessary, it might still be a
good idea to just stick to one perl version for simplicity.