Re: Builds undistributalbe debs without perl in the standard path.
Previously YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote:
> Yes. That's to avoid building broken dpkg debs by mistake under
> Debian environment. /usr/sbin/update-alternatives that needs
> /usr/local/bin/perl would be quite harmful to most sites.
But changing PATH doesn't affect that at all.
> We can explicitly use standard /usr/bin/perl by restricting PATH to
> /usr/bin:/bin when configure.
Those scripts should run with any perl version (maybe not perl3 and
older, but definitely anything from perl4), so I do not see why we
would want to restrict PATH.
> Can we assume it's already under Debian environment when configuring
> and building dpkg in debian/rules?
Definitely not, the only dependencies should be GNU make, perl4 or later
and the packages listed as Build-Depends.
Wichert.
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