Demonstrate breakage: checkout overwrites untracked symlink with directory

diff --git a/perl/Makefile b/perl/Makefile
index 4ab21d61b808d2e396419fb41419bcea7ab3cde4..a2ffb6402d45420dff4dcd545dfa08b57305d8cd 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Makefile
+++ b/perl/Makefile
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ $(makfile): ../GIT-CFLAGS Makefile
        echo '  echo $(instdir_SQ)' >> $@
 else
 $(makfile): Makefile.PL ../GIT-CFLAGS
-       $(PERL_PATH) $< PREFIX='$(prefix_SQ)'
+       $(PERL_PATH) $< PREFIX='$(prefix_SQ)' INSTALL_BASE=''
 endif
 
 # this is just added comfort for calling make directly in perl dir