Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

From: Andrew McNaughton (andrew_at_scoop.co.nz)
Date: 01/30/05

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    Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:35:16 +1300 (NZDT)
To: perl@freebsd.org

    On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:

    > Oliver Lehmann wrote:
    >> Anton Berezin wrote:
    >>> In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in
    >>> order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to
    >>> #! /usr/local/bin/perl.
    >>
    >> Wouldn't that break most of the 3rd party scripts out in the world?
    >
    > Well-behaved 3rd party scripts ought to start Perl via:
    >
    > #! /usr/bin/env perl
    >
    > ...so long as /usr/local/bin is in the $PATH, they should still work fine.

    I commonly use this approach, but I run into some problems with flags.
    Probably a simple gotcha someone can help with.

    Eg the following useful constructs don't work:

    #!/usr/bin/env perl -p
    #!/usr/bin/env perl -T
    #!/usr/bin/env perl -w

    Andrew McNaughton 

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