On Tue, 2007-09-01 at 14:10 +0000,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The one in /usr/bin has this at the top of the file:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
>
> eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -Tw -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
> if 0; # not running under some shell
>
> I realise that this does nothing, but just wondered why it was in the
> make install version and not in the raw tar ball one.
It's required on platforms which don't know about '#!' (e.g. windows).
>
> Would I be correct in thinking that I should continue to use the raw
> tar ball code and not start pointing to the "make install" version of
> everything?
I have not heard of anyone running it from the installed version like
this yet. I'm not brave enough to try :-).
There is a debian package of 0.32 for the pending release (etch) and
this would use the "make install" version but Debian does their own q.a.
and patches.
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