Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Package: lintian >> Version: 1.23.8 >> Severity: normal > >> Lintian warns about "executable-not-elf-or-script" on tetex-base's >> thumbpdf.pl and uniqleaf.pl. Both contain a "magic perl header" > >> eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' && eval 'exec perl -S >> $0 $argv:q' >> if 0; >> use strict; > >> It should either accept that header, or tell me why it is wrong. I know >> that many trying-to-be-portable perl scripts use such a header. > > Is that the first line of the file? Generally one still starts such a > script with #!/bin/sh. Otherwise, you're relying on the assumption that > any unrecognized file is started under /bin/sh.
Yes, obviously upstream is relying on that, but it seems this is also needed. If I add a #!/bin/sh line, I get a shell error instead of perl execution. I don't know whether this means that the magic is not magic enough, or what. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer