Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:14:32 -0600

On 1/18/13 2:58 PM, Ralph Lange wrote:
> Hi Murali,
> 
> one way to get around this (this is what the EPICS build system does)
> would be not to use the hashbang by explicitly calling perl with the
> script as argument:
>     perl ./bin/linux-x86_64-debug/capr.pl
> 
> Admittedly, this avoids the issue and does not fix it.
> 
> A more elegant portable solution is replacing the hashbang with
> 
>     eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' # -*- Mode: perl -*-
>         if 0;
> 
> That will find perl in the PATH.

??  I would say the correct thing to do would be for the hashbang in
capr.pl (and all others) to be set correctly based on the PERL variable
from the EPICS build system at build time.

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System