On Wednesday 06 September 2006 10:27, Jonathan Rockway wrote:

> I could be wrong here, but I think the check is to make sure that tar
> doesn't set +x on Makefile.PL or Build.PL, thus forcing the user to run
> the proper version of perl instead of automagically running the perl
> that shebang points to.  (Example: Makefile.PL says #!/usr/bin/perl, but
> you really want to run /home/jon/blead/bin/perl.  Forcing you to type
> this out is "a good thing".)

Oh, right.  Yes, that's obvious now.  I misinterpreted it.

-- c

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