Re: [Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

2004-06-24 Thread jfm
On Jun 24, 2004, at 1:02 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Most of these packages allow the user to override their tests for perl by checking the PERL environment variable first. If we just have fink set PERL to /usr/bin/perl by default (different default for perl modules, I guess), then the problem wil

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

2004-06-24 Thread jfm
On Jun 24, 2004, at 12:38 AM, David Brown wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:18:51AM +0200, jfm wrote: More accurately probably, #! `which perl` #! /usr/bin/env perl which will actually work. There are a lot of strange restrictions on that line. This was just symbolic notation, to stress that what

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

2004-06-23 Thread Peter O'Gorman
David Brown wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:18:51AM +0200, jfm wrote: More accurately probably, #! `which perl` #! /usr/bin/env perl which will actually work. There are a lot of strange restrictions on that line. Most of these packages allow the user to override their tests for perl by check

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

2004-06-23 Thread David Brown
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:18:51AM +0200, jfm wrote: > More accurately probably, > #! `which perl` #! /usr/bin/env perl which will actually work. There are a lot of strange restrictions on that line. Dave Brown --- This SF.Net email sponsor

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

2004-06-23 Thread jfm
On Jun 23, 2004, at 10:57 PM, jfm wrote: It is due to the fact that a number of pkgs install scripts beginning with #!/currently/active/perl More accurately probably, #! `which perl` Cf all 'checking for perl... /sw/bin/perl' in log files JF ---