Re: Git's Perl scripts can fail if user is configured for perlbrew

2015-01-01 Thread Ben Aveling
On 29/12/14 09:36, Randy J. Ray wrote: I don't know enough about the overall git ecosystem to know if this would have an adverse effect on anything else (in particular, Windows compatibility, but then Windows probably isn't having this issue in the first place). Perlbrew doesn't support

Re: Git's Perl scripts can fail if user is configured for perlbrew

2014-12-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com wrote: I use git on MacOS via homebrew (http://brew.sh/), and a custom Perl installation built and managed via perlbrew (http://perlbrew.pl/). At some point, commands like git add -i broke. I say at some point, because I'm not

Re: Git's Perl scripts can fail if user is configured for perlbrew

2014-12-29 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On 2014-12-28 23.36, Randy J. Ray wrote: I use git on MacOS via homebrew (http://brew.sh/), and a custom Perl installation built and managed via perlbrew (http://perlbrew.pl/). At some point, commands like git add -i broke. I say at some point, because I'm not a git power-user and I only

Re: Git's Perl scripts can fail if user is configured for perlbrew

2014-12-29 Thread Randy J. Ray
On 12/29/14, 7:21 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: [CC'd the perlbrew author] This is a bit of a tricky issue. Using whatever perl is defined in the environment is just as likely to break, in general the build process tries to pick these assets at compile-time. Imagine you're experimenting

Re: Git's Perl scripts can fail if user is configured for perlbrew

2014-12-29 Thread Randy J. Ray
On 12/29/14, 7:40 AM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: Having problems with different perl installations is not an unknown problem in Git, I would say. And Git itself is prepared to handle this situation: In Makefile I can read: # Define PERL_PATH to the path of your Perl binary (usually

Re: Git's Perl scripts can fail if user is configured for perlbrew

2014-12-29 Thread Kang-min Liu
On 12/29/14, 7:21 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: [CC'd the perlbrew author] This is a bit of a tricky issue. Using whatever perl is defined in the environment is just as likely to break, in general the build process tries to pick these assets at compile-time. Imagine you're

Re: Git's Perl scripts can fail if user is configured for perlbrew

2014-12-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com wrote: On 12/29/14, 7:40 AM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: Having problems with different perl installations is not an unknown problem in Git, I would say. And Git itself is prepared to handle this situation: In Makefile I

Git's Perl scripts can fail if user is configured for perlbrew

2014-12-28 Thread Randy J. Ray
I use git on MacOS via homebrew (http://brew.sh/), and a custom Perl installation built and managed via perlbrew (http://perlbrew.pl/). At some point, commands like git add -i broke. I say at some point, because I'm not a git power-user and I only just noticed it this week. I am running Git