Re: Bug in #! processing

From: Ceri Davies (ceri_at_submonkey.net)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:21:44 +0100
    To: S?awek ?ak <szak@era.pl>
    
    
    

    On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:16:21PM +0200, S?awek ?ak wrote:
    > "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com> writes:
    >
    > > I wrote the code you guys are talking about, although I had nothing to do
    > > with the commit in rev 1.21. I don't have an opinion on that other than
    > > it's been this way in FreeBSD for a long time and I share Ceri's concern
    > > that changing it will affect some people.
    >
    > By no means I wish to force anyone to fix their scripts for 5.3
    > release. Period. I would only like to use Allegro CL in scripts, which
    > unfortunately considers -#! valid in argument list and acts accordingly on
    > all platforms besides FreeBSD. Some (in)compatibility shim would be
    > great. Please! :)

    All I can suggest is to back out r1.21 locally for now.

    Ceri

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