On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Brian Harring <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:28:59AM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> Regarding your /usr/bin/python3.2 /usr/bin/sphinx-build example:
>> invoking python on a binary (or a symlink to a binary) isn't going to
>> work at all. So I don't see how you've solved that issue.
>
> Kindly provide reasoning/justification for such a claim in the future-
> saves a round of email ping/ponging, and saves me getting pissy
> towards people if they persist in it. :)
>
> Lecture aside, "nuh uh, it does work!" is appropriate.  I already
> hacked up a prototype locally that works fine and does this via an
> env passing hack- w/ what was proposed, this can be done w/out those
> hacks, and would be faster.
>

When you invoke a command like:

/usr/bin/python3.2 /usr/bin/somebinary

The python3.2 program assumes somebinary is a python script and tries
to parse it. Since somebinary is actually an ELF object, python bombs
out immediately.

Am I missing something fundamental here?

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