Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-26 Thread Kai Großjohann
On 26 May 2001, Daniel Pittman wrote: Maybe it's some very strange shell quoting bug in that version of his shell or something? Well, the Perl error message shows Perl code that looks like the original source. Hm. But still, maybe the wrong quote is somewhere else. Sven? kai --

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
Kai == Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 May 2001, Sven Utcke wrote: (Should Tramp assume that any Perl found is a Perl 5?) Hmm. This, of course, would be guaranteed to break once perl6 is out, and possibly on some (very few) perl4-only machines... I guess it's time to

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Sven Utcke wrote: Right. Any difference in environment between the two? kogs12/tmp% diff env.tramp env.ssh LC_TIME, PATH and TERM could be further investigated. Can you make the problem appear in a `normal' (non-Tramp) ksh by frobbing these variables? kai --

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
Sven == Sven Utcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the strange thing of course is that it _does_ work with that particular instance of perl when called from the shell, just not when called from tramp. This really _is_ weird... Could it be something odd going on with the line-endings ?

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Sven Utcke
Sven == Sven Utcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the strange thing of course is that it _does_ work with that particular instance of perl when called from the shell, just not when called from tramp. This really _is_ weird... Could it be something odd going on with the line-endings ?

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kai == Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 May 2001, Sven Utcke wrote: (Should Tramp assume that any Perl found is a Perl 5?) Hmm. This, of course, would be guaranteed to break once perl6 is out, and possibly on some (very

Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
Once upon a time, people had Perl 4 and Perl 5 on their system, and invoking perl5 ran the newer version. I think these days this is obsolete and Tramp should not check for perl5 anymore. What do you think? (Should Tramp assume that any Perl found is a Perl 5?) kai -- ~/.signature: No such

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 25 May 2001, Kai Großjohann wrote: On 25 May 2001, Stefan Monnier wrote: Is there any good reason why the Perl code used by Tramp does not work with Perl-4 (and why it won't work with Perl-6) ? I have no idea whether it works on Perl 4. However, since it doesn't even work on a

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Sven Utcke
Is there any good reason why the Perl code used by Tramp does not work with Perl-4 (and why it won't work with Perl-6) ? I have no idea whether it works on Perl 4. However, since it doesn't even work on a particular instance of Perl 5... But the strange thing of course is that it _does_

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Sven Utcke
Once upon a time, people had Perl 4 and Perl 5 on their system, and invoking perl5 ran the newer version. I think these days this is obsolete and Tramp should not check for perl5 anymore. What do you think? I tend to agree --- if only because, on my system, the executable is called

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Sven Utcke wrote: (Should Tramp assume that any Perl found is a Perl 5?) Hmm. This, of course, would be guaranteed to break once perl6 is out, and possibly on some (very few) perl4-only machines... I guess it's time to run `perl -v', then. Argh. Sounds like work.

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Sven Utcke
But the strange thing of course is that it _does_ work with that particular instance of perl when called from the shell, just not when called from tramp. This really _is_ weird... Right. Any difference in environment between the two? kogs12/tmp% diff env.tramp env.ssh 1c1 _=/bin/env

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Sven Utcke
Right. Any difference in environment between the two? kogs12/tmp% diff env.tramp env.ssh LC_TIME, PATH and TERM could be further investigated. Can you make the problem appear in a `normal' (non-Tramp) ksh by frobbing these variables? No. Sven -- _ __ The

Re: Turn off check for perl5?

2001-05-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
On 25 May 2001, Stefan Monnier wrote: Sven == Sven Utcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the strange thing of course is that it _does_ work with that particular instance of perl when called from the shell, just not when called from tramp. This really _is_ weird... Could it be something