> The tetex system contains some important perl scripts, for instance > epstopdf. Unfortunately, these scripts run only with bourne shell or > cshell, but not with bash (bash1, bash2). There are differences in case > of internal exec evaluation, in this case of the recursive determination > of perl binary's location. But the bash is the default shell, at the > very least with redhat linux. Don't debate, if it is sensibly or not - > what is the best way to clear the user's problem?
I cannot reproduce the problem. It works for me with bash as login shell and on Linux (tested SuSE 7.2 and RedHat 7.2). > One solution could be to write "#!/usr/bin/perl" oder simple ":" as > first line into the scripts ... teTeX should work on systems where perl is not in /usr/bin. I don't see how a : should invoke perl. Thomas
