Quoting Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.25/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
>
> The bug you are referring to appears to be:
> http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=6588
>
> bryar-newblog is referenced in the EXE_FILES of the Makefile.PL. and
> it's shebang line is "#!/usr/bin/perl".
>
> According to the ExtUtils::MakeMaker docs:
>
> If your executables start with something like #!perl
> or #!/usr/bin/perl MakeMaker will change this to the
> path of the perl 'Makefile.PL' was invoked with so
> the programs will be sure to run properly even if perl
> is not in /usr/bin/perl.
>
> So, if the bug author is still finding the shebang line is wrong, I
> would suggest either they ran Makefile.PL with the wrong Perl or there
> is a bug in their ExtUtils::MakeMaker setup.
>
> Does this answer the question?
>
Yes it does. Cool. I was always concerned about this, but haven't had an
impetus to find out what the deal was/fix it until i wanted to close out that
bug.
Thanks Randall and Ovid for the pointers.
/me ducks now for not reading the make maker documentation. It never occurred
to me that this was install magic.
-jason gessner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
