Jeroen Demeyer on Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:28:27 +0100


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Re: Install Perl scripts with #!/usr/bin/env perl


On 2015-01-19 12:20, Bill Allombert wrote:
your proposal defeats the purpose of the Configure check, since the perl
program checked by Configure might not be the perl program that will be used.
No, it does not since the perl program checked by Configure is still used at build-time. My patch only changes things at run-time, not build-time.

Also, this is incompatible with the use of flags:
#! /usr/bin/env perl -w
True, but that's not applicable for my patch (the scripts I am changing do not have flags). In any case, -w can be changed to "use warnings" if needed.

This is assuming that /usr/bin/env exists on the target system.
...which is true in practice. I think it's a lot safer to assume the existence of /usr/bin/env than to assume that two different systems will have the same path to Perl (especially since the default perl found in $PATH could be in some non-standard location).