John Dallaway wrote: > I was looking at support for UNC file paths in the eCos Configuration > Tool today. The convoluted #! magic we use in our Tcl scripts to find a > Cygwin Tcl shell is getting in the way when calling (eg) heapgen.tcl via > a UNC repository path. This code is only needed to support installations > of Cygwin that are more than 5 years old. > > Rather than increase the complexity of the #! magic still further, I > think it now makes sense to revert to a simple "#! /usr/bin/tclsh" > within our Tcl scripts. However, this would break compatibility with old > Cygwin installations providing only tclsh8*.exe or cygtclsh80.exe. > > Any objections?
Yes, it may not be in /usr/bin. I don't mind the cygwin-specific cygpath bits being dropped, but I'd still want it to be found from the PATH by some means. Jifl -- eCosCentric Limited http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos experts Barnwell House, Barnwell Drive, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 1223 245571 Registered in England and Wales: Reg No 4422071. ------["Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere"]------ Opinions==mine
