Experimental Physics and
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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:53:36 -0500

Hi Martin,

On 09/10/2018 03:24 PM, Konrad, Martin wrote:
> Looking at the Perl scripts included in EPICS Base I'm wondering if it
> is really necessary to start some of them (see for example [1]) with the
> rather esoteric
> 
> eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'  # -*- Mode: perl -*-
>     if $running_under_some_shell;
> 
> rather than the usual "#!/usr/bin/perl" or "#!/usr/bin/env perl" (please
> refer to [2] for an explanation of the existing "eval exec" solution).

The makeInstallDir.pl script in softIoc appears to be the last one that
actually uses that construct. I remember replacing the others a while
back, and there is no reason I know of for not fixing that one as well,
I just missed it at the time (we didn't have 'git grep' back then, which
is a wonderful thing...).

> According to my understanding all Unix systems should understand the
> shebang. Windows doesn't care (it looks at the file name extension). Can
> the experts for non-Unix systems shine some light on why this is needed?

We only support building EPICS on Windows or Unix-like OS hosts, so this
has nothing to do with non-Unix targets.

Fixing on the 3.14 branch, will be merged up after the 3.14.12.8 final
release.

- Andrew

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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