From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] global: resolve Perl executable via PATH
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 16:48:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZC2KICsJN5pmsqWX@ncase> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0eLNOWFr7fc6M5Fompw1Y13vAxk8=fAWVZ8-22Y-xihg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 08:35:50AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 5:53 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
> >
> > The majority of Perl scripts we carry in Git have a `#!/usr/bin/perl`
> > shebang. This is not a portable location for the Perl interpreter and
> > may thus break on some systems that have the interpreter installed in a
> > different location. One such example is NixOS, where the only executable
> > installed in `/usr/bin` is env(1).
> >
> > Convert the shebangs to resolve the location of the Perl interpreter via
> > env(1) to make these scripts more portable. While the location of env(1)
> > is not guaranteed by any standard either, in practice all distributions
> > including NixOS have it available at `/usr/bin/env`. We're also already
> > using this idiom in a small set of other scripts, and until now nobody
> > complained about them.
>
> This is standard practice in Ruby, and it does seem to work everywhere.
>
> However, I wonder if /bin/env does also work. I can't imagine a system
> system providing /usr/bin/env but not /bin/env.
NixOS does indeed only have /usr/bin/env and does not have /bin/env, so
it wouldn't.
Patrick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-05 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-05 10:10 [PATCH] global: resolve Perl executable via PATH Patrick Steinhardt
2023-04-05 13:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-05 14:48 ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2023-04-05 14:42 ` Todd Zullinger
2023-04-05 14:52 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2023-04-05 15:54 ` Todd Zullinger
2023-04-05 17:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-05 17:35 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2023-04-05 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-06 2:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-05 16:54 ` Jeff King
2023-04-05 17:32 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2023-04-05 18:15 ` Jeff King
2023-04-06 2:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-06 3:35 ` Jeff King
2023-04-06 8:03 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-04-18 8:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-06 8:07 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2023-04-05 18:28 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-05 21:30 ` Eric Wong
2023-04-06 2:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-06 8:05 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-04-06 3:26 ` Jeff King
2023-04-06 8:19 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2023-04-06 9:36 ` [PATCH] t/lib-httpd: pass PERL_PATH to CGI scripts Jeff King
2023-04-06 16:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-18 9:04 ` Felipe Contreras
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