On Mar 14, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:49:35PM +0100, Harald Koenig wrote:
> > > Alternatively, or in addition, it could do:
> > >
> > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> > >
> > > eval 'exec perl -wS $0 ${1+"$@"}'
> > > if $running_under_some_shell;
> >
> > using this method in our environment on HP-UX 11.00 I get
> >
> > /tmp > thumbpdf
> > interpreter "/usr/bin/perl" not found
> > /usr/local/bin/thumbpdf[7]: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/thumbpdf: nicht gefunden.
> >
> > so, without a configure script to locate perl this doesn't seem to work
>
> I don't understand what you mean by this.
>
> If you edit /usr/local/teTeX/bin/thumbpdf by adding the two lines:
>
> eval 'exec perl -wS $0 ${1+"$@"}'
> if $running_under_some_shell;
>
> immediately after the #!/usr/bin/perl line, and then try running it
> using the exec command from your wrapper, what happens? Do you still
> get the program dying?
exactly. the "exec ..../bin/thumbpdf" doesn't work if
#!/wrong/dir/doesnt_exist
can't be executed. no fallback, just the error which I've mentioned above.
that's not specific to HPUX, it's the same in Linux, too:
bash:
./test.sh: No such file or directory
tcsh:
./test.sh: Command not found.
Harald Koenig
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