git-core 1.6.0.1 instaweb fails, can't run perl

[walter@…]

Symptom: git instaweb fails as follows:

$ git instaweb --httpd webrick                                         (09-05 21:06)
/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-instaweb: line 6015: /usr/bin/env perl: No such file or directory
[2008-09-05 21:06:29] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2008-09-05 21:06:29] INFO  ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i686-darwin8.9.1]
No known browser available.
http://127.0.0.1:1234

The web server is launched but it doesn't work because the gitweb.cgi file is not written.

The reason seems to be that the Portfile has this:

PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/env perl"

which causes trouble when git-instaweb does this:

PERL='/usr/bin/env perl'
...
"$PERL" -p -e "$script" "$1.tmp"  > "$1"

I guess it's not surprising that setting PERL_PATH to something other than a path wouldn't work, but so far instaweb is the only thing I've tried that has the problem.

[maccheck@…]

Removing the PERL_PATH occurrences in the Portfile did the trick for me. Until now, I didn't find any incompatibilities due to that change.

I attached my Portfile as a patch.

[maccheck@…]

I added the patch in the version update to git-core 1.6.0.2 as well (see #16546).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Fixed in r40118. Thanks!

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