Bill Allombert on Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:29:14 +0100


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Re: Install Perl scripts with #!/usr/bin/env perl


On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:49:43AM +0100, Karim Belabas wrote:
> C) For install, we can either
> 
> * provide
> 
>   Configure --installed-perl=<run-time perl binary>
> 
> with Configure's current $perl as a default [ build-machine = target is
> a sensible default ]. Of course, "/usr/bin/env perl" is (now) a valid value;

This is a very awkward name for a  Configure option.
Either we should use
--with-perl=<run-time perl binary>
or an environment variable
PERL=<run-time perl binary>
(or both)
Cheers,
Bill.