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From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im>
To: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] t/perf: use configured PERL_PATH
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:50:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z_ywLLN5xj6cYFN9@pks.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87semgdyxb.fsf@iotcl.com>

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 01:43:44PM +0200, Toon Claes wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im> writes:
> 
> > Our benchmarks use a couple of Perl scripts to compute results. These
> > Perl scripts get executed directly, and as the shebang is hardcoded to
> > "/usr/bin/perl" this will fail on any system where the Perl interpreter
> > is located in a different path.
> >
> > Our build infrastructure already lets users configure the location of
> > Perl, which ultimately gets written into the GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS file.
> > This file is being sourced by "test-lib.sh", and consequently we already
> > have the "PERL_PATH" variable available that contains its configured
> > location.
> >
> > Use "PERL_PATH" to execute Perl scripts, which makes them work on more
> > esoteric systems like NixOS.
> 
> I see in `t/perf/README` there's a mention of running `./aggregate.perl`
> directly? Shall we inform the user to run that through their Perl as
> well?
> 
> -    $ ./aggregate.perl . /path/to/other/git ./p0001-rev-list.sh
> +    $ perl ./aggregate.perl . /path/to/other/git ./p0001-rev-list.sh
> 
> Or do we expect users to know what they are doing when they don't have
> Perl installed at /usr/bin/perl?

Another solution could be to switch the shebang to `#!/usr/bin/env
perl`. We also do this for "t/chainlint.pl".

Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2025-04-14  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-31  6:16 [PATCH 0/5] meson: wire up support for benchmarks Patrick Steinhardt
2025-03-31  6:16 ` [PATCH 1/5] t/perf: fix benchmarks with alternate repo formats Patrick Steinhardt
2025-03-31  6:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] t/perf: use configured PERL_PATH Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-10 11:43   ` Toon Claes
2025-04-14  6:50     ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2025-04-14 19:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2025-04-15 10:01         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-03-31  6:16 ` [PATCH 3/5] t/perf: fix benchmarks with out-of-tree builds Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-10 11:34   ` Toon Claes
2025-04-14  6:28     ` Toon Claes
2025-04-14  6:50       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-03-31  6:16 ` [PATCH 4/5] meson: wire up benchmarks Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-10 11:44   ` Toon Claes
2025-04-14  6:50     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-14  9:07       ` Toon Claes
2025-03-31  6:16 ` [PATCH 5/5] meson: wire up benchmarking options Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-14  6:51 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] meson: wire up support for benchmarks Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-14  6:51   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] t/perf: fix benchmarks with alternate repo formats Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-14  6:51   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] t/perf: use configured PERL_PATH Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-14  6:51   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] t/perf: fix benchmarks with out-of-tree builds Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-20 10:00     ` Christian Couder
2025-04-22  6:51       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-14  6:51   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] meson: wire up benchmarks Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-20 10:00     ` Christian Couder
2025-04-14  6:51   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] meson: wire up benchmarking options Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-15 14:36   ` [PATCH v2 0/5] meson: wire up support for benchmarks Junio C Hamano
2025-04-15 18:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-04-16 11:00       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-18 23:02         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-04-22  6:50 ` [PATCH v3 " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-22  6:50   ` [PATCH v3 1/5] t/perf: fix benchmarks with alternate repo formats Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-22  6:50   ` [PATCH v3 2/5] t/perf: use configured PERL_PATH Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-22  6:50   ` [PATCH v3 3/5] t/perf: fix benchmarks with out-of-tree builds Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-22  6:50   ` [PATCH v3 4/5] meson: wire up benchmarks Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-22  6:50   ` [PATCH v3 5/5] meson: wire up benchmarking options Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-22  7:27   ` [PATCH v3 0/5] meson: wire up support for benchmarks Christian Couder
2025-04-22  7:53     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-23 14:44       ` Christian Couder
2025-04-24  4:31         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-24  6:28           ` Christian Couder
2025-04-24 11:13           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-04-24 13:49             ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-23 14:12   ` Toon Claes
2025-04-25  7:28 ` [PATCH v4 " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-25  7:28   ` [PATCH v4 1/5] t/perf: fix benchmarks with alternate repo formats Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-25  7:28   ` [PATCH v4 2/5] t/perf: use configured PERL_PATH Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-25  7:28   ` [PATCH v4 3/5] t/perf: fix benchmarks with out-of-tree builds Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-25  7:28   ` [PATCH v4 4/5] meson: wire up benchmarks Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-25  7:57     ` Christian Couder
2025-04-25  8:01       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-25  8:09         ` Christian Couder
2025-04-25  8:27           ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-25  7:28   ` [PATCH v4 5/5] meson: wire up benchmarking options Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-25  8:06   ` [PATCH v4 0/5] meson: wire up support for benchmarks Christian Couder
2025-04-25  8:26     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-25  8:33       ` Christian Couder
2025-04-28  7:30 ` [PATCH v5 " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-28  7:30   ` [PATCH v5 1/5] t/perf: fix benchmarks with alternate repo formats Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-28  7:30   ` [PATCH v5 2/5] t/perf: use configured PERL_PATH Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-28  7:30   ` [PATCH v5 3/5] t/perf: fix benchmarks with out-of-tree builds Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-28  7:30   ` [PATCH v5 4/5] meson: wire up benchmarks Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-28  7:30   ` [PATCH v5 5/5] meson: wire up benchmarking options Patrick Steinhardt

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